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156 The “Recording” (Camera icon) Menu Settings

1. Just as automatic exposure mode can often get confused by non-
average subjects, there may be situations (like for subjects with black
or white backgrounds) where the automatic flash exposure
calculation won’t be accurate. So you can either use Flash
Compensation (to make it darker or lighter, see next section) or this.
2. If you’re a studio photographer with high-end strobe lights that have
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an optical slave feature, then using this function set to 1/16 will be
enough to trigger your optical slaves but probably not enough to
affect your exposure. (It will introduce less shutter lag, too, since
there’s no pre-flash wireless commands in this mode.)

TIP: I think this feature was poorly named, since some people might think it
has something to do with ratio flash. It doesn’t. (But if you want ratio flash,
you can read all about it in Section 12.6.)

5.12 RED EYE REDUCTION

Menu Position MENU  3 Red Eye Reduction

What it Does Tries to reduce the natural occurrence of red eye in flash
pictures taken using the pop-up flash

Recommended Setting I hate this feature
Constraints Setting Pop-up flash only

Red eye can occur in flash pictures if the flash is too close to the lens.
What happens is the light from the flash bounces off the subject’s retina
(which shows up red for humans, and yellow-green-blueish for most
animals) and then bounces right back to the camera. The traditional
solution to this problem is to attach an accessory flash to the camera,
increasing the distance between flash and lens and eliminating problem
entirely. (And that’s the solution I recommend if you’re being plagued by
red-eye in your pictures.)

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