Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Forgive the possible multiple posts, but my last two attempts came back to me. We had a small thunderstorm roll through at dusk yesterday. I have never seen lightning at this time of the day, where there was still some color in the sky and clouds, so I thought I'd give it a try. I shot 50 frames and only caught lightning on two of them. Had the camera (Rebel XTi) set on sequential exposure, and the shutter at 5 or 8 seconds, and the cable release clicked on so I did not have to stand there. It would fire one shot, then write it to disk then fire the next shot. Last time I did this was with my R8 and motor winder and it worked well. Problem with the digital Rebel is that after each 5 second exposure it took about 10 seconds to write the info to the card before it took the next shot. So, I missed about 66% of the time. And, every time I saw a great bolt, I looked over to the camera and it was still writing the previous exposure. Drats. Maybe a 50 D would write faster? I think it has something to do with the null exposure when using long shutter speeds. Maybe I could turn that off if I looked at the manual. did catch this one, however. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/-7.jpg.html comments and criticism welcome.