Newbie here, flash dilemma

[whtge8]

Since my D60 can't shoot faster than 1/200 with a flash, if I use my cactus trigger on it, will the camera think its a flash and restrict the flash to 1/200? I might also pick up that vivitar. I just want to be able to shoot at 1/500 and faster with an off camera flash. How can I do this?

 

[KmH]

Since my D60 can't shoot faster than 1/200 with a flash, if I use my cactus trigger on it, will the camera think its a flash and restrict the flash to 1/200? I might also pick up that vivitar. I just want to be able to shoot at 1/500 and faster with an off camera flash. How can I do this?

Yes, the radio trigger unit mounted on the hot shoe looks like a speedlight to the camera.

There is only 1 way to use a shutter speed higher than the flash sync speed, FP sync, a feature your D60 doesn't have.

Why do you want a sync speed of 1/500? To stop motion?

If so, you don't need that fast a shutter speed because the flash itself, at full power, has a duration of about 1/1000. At less than full power the flash duration gets even shorter. Just be sure you have selected rear curtain sync.

 

[whtge8]

Well I want to take pictures like these I found on here:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3605/3358583651_dc9a2b8f77_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2228/2338878191_a8e6b920a9.jpg

I love those kind of pictures. On some other forums a photographer once showed me a picture similiar to that and told me it was shot at 1/4000, so I figured in order to get shots like that you would need a really fast shutter speed.