A85 shutter speed mystery

[spelchek]

Hi all,

My A85 seems to refuse to take a photo at any faster shutter speed than 1/500.

Im using full manual mode, and it lets me select a faster shutter speed (eg 1/1000) BUT, when i do a 1/2 press of the buton to get it to check white balanbce, it tells me its gonna shoot at 1/500.. seemingly regardless of what i 'tell' it to do.

Its definatly taken most of my shots over the last week at 1/500.. even tho i've been tryiong to get 1/1000 (at least). Like I said, some of the shots were taken at 1/1000, but there seems to be no reason they are any different to the others it only shot at 1/500.

I stress again, I was using full manual mode. Anyone got anyt idea what I may have done, or whats up with the camera???

Thanks :)

[michun]

maybe stupid answer, but did you try to turn off the flash?

[spelchek]

Bloody hell.. no i didn't try to turn off the flash... bugger.. now that you mention it i think i read that shutter speed is limited to 1/5090 with flash on.. is this correct???

I was using the flash to try to eliminate as much shadow around faces etc as posssible due to position of sun and the fact that i was shooting much lower than the subject (i was treading water)

That makes so much sense now.. damn bugger poo!!!!


Thanks mate :)

[michun]

[QUOTE=spelchek]Bloody hell.. no i didn't try to turn off the flash... bugger.. now that you mention it i think i read that shutter speed is limited to 1/500 with flash on.. is this correct???


I think I read it too, but I am not shure.