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Summary: Digital cameras have various flash and timer settings. Learn about the digital flash and timer with tips from a camera enthusiast in this free photography video.
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In this segment, we're going to talk about flash modes and self timer modes. First off, this is the button here for the flash, but if you press it and the flash is not open it won't do anything. So you've got to push the flash open button and then the little lightning with little arrow at the bottom, you press on that and it gives you four different mode possibilities. Let's start with the auto. We have auto at the top, which means that if it needs a flash it will use it and auto with red-eye means it has red-eye reduction by shooting a small flash to adjust and make people's eyes so they won't have red-eye on them. Forced flash on means that you use the flash on any shot for fill in flash, and slow sync red-eye is when you're basically using a dark area with a subject that you're worried about the red-eye. Okay, now we're going to do self timer mode so we're going to adjust that for off, which is on normally, it defaults to that. Two seconds, ten seconds, or ten seconds with three pictures.