The flash is designed to fire for a very short period of time and illuminate your scene in one of
two ways:
?– As the main source of light indoors or in the dark
?– As a secondary source of light to fill in shadows when you??™re shooting in bright light,
such as outdoors
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In general, your flash will probably know when to fire and can illuminate most pictures
without your direct intervention. When your camera is set to the fully automatic exposure mode,
the flash will probably come on as needed and not fire when it is not needed. On the other hand,
for better results, you can often figure out when you need a flash more effectively than your
camera can. For example, there will be situations when you may want your flash to fire when
it would probably stay off, and vice versa. That??™s why your camera has several flash modes to
choose from. We??™ll talk about those a little later, in the section ???Master Your Flash Modes.???
Stay Within the Range of Your Flash
How far will the light from your flash travel? That??™s something you need to know if you expect
to get the most out of your flash. The flash built into most digital cameras is not extremely
powerful; at best, you can expect to get a range of about 20 feet.
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