I just received my new T6, to replace my old Olympus E500 that in sadly dying. I don't have any new lenses yet (was married to a fixed-zoom 50mm lens for my Olympus, I'll have to find an equivalentin the Canon line), but decided to see how I'd do with insect photography with the kit lens. I nearly always shoot in Av mode, so that's what I tried. I was working inside, so I activated the flash, and set F/6.3 as a starting point. Took the photo, and noticed a very long exposure time (1/3s). Tried a few more times, with same result. Then I decided to switch to Macro mode on the automatic dial, and found that a much more reasonable exposure time was selected in this case (1/160s), with about the same aperture (F/5.6) as I had selected, and same ISO (800), and flash automatically activated.
Not surprisingly, on inspection, the Av photos were not only blurry (I'm not that steady) but also overexposed. But I'm confused - why does the camera automatically select an appropriate exposure time in macro mode, but not in Av mode? If I want to use Av mode with flash, how do I get the camera to select a suitable exposure time?
Not surprisingly, on inspection, the Av photos were not only blurry (I'm not that steady) but also overexposed. But I'm confused - why does the camera automatically select an appropriate exposure time in macro mode, but not in Av mode? If I want to use Av mode with flash, how do I get the camera to select a suitable exposure time?
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