Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I meant to write not hugely faster shutter speeds then before but hugely higher shutter ISO's. I think shutter speeds leveled out at an 8000th a couple of decades ago. But flash duration close up can be very much faster I see we get 1/41600 sec. at M1/128 output with my SB800 flash and I'm sure heads similar but I cant see why it can't be ever faster than that with the flash head a foot or two away from your bumble bee. You've got a shot of actually freezing his wings in motion. And that's not with a special high speed flash which I'm sure exists somewhere. Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:37:33 +0100 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] A new M from Canon > > High speed flash works incredibly well in macro, and looks completely > natural > if you know how. The down side is weight and bulk. > Given how much manual shake there is at macro distances I wouldn't hold > your > breath for an effective VR/IS solution. > FD > > On 26 Jul, 2012, at 08:04, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> Thanks and a damn shame and I was wrong then. When they can get >> stabilization in macro photography will be be a huge help. I'm sure they >> can some day. macro photography as many of us know is not just snap shots >> down close it is hugely difficult on a number of unexpected levels if you >> haven't researched it before you try it.. You need much faster shutter >> speeds then at normal lengths and you need also to stop down a lot more. >> What we do have now is hugely faster shutter speeds which make macro much >> more doable than before. >> VR would be a great boom. >> Before that macro is darned hard to do without flash. Normally on a cord >> held up or to the side. Tripods don't help as the things like branches are >> moving in the slight breeze. And a bug is moving of course. Also there is >> a >> thing where off camera flash somehow does not look like off camera flash >> in >> macro work. >> But by the way VR is not going to help with bugs. >> A flash fired at a few feet away goes off very fast making for an >> effective >> shutter speed of many times faster than any shutter. Exactly what you >> need. >> >> Mark William Rabiner >> Photography >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >> >> >>> From: Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07:45:08 +0100 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] A new M from Canon >>> >>> I have this lens and like it. The VR is fairly ineffective at macro >>> magnifications, since the shake is way more than can be realistically >>> compensated by a moving set of elements. >>> The fact that the VR does not work well for macro is pointed out in the >>> lens' >>> instructions supplied by Nikon with the lens (which I would not normally >>> read). >>> OTOH as a stabilised normal lens it works brilliantly. >>> FD >>> >>> >>> On 25 Jul, 2012, at 20:26, Mark Rabiner wrote: >>> >>>> The 105 macro which I have on my camera right now having been sent it >>>> yesterday is now VR in the past year which has I've been told and I >>>> believe; revolutionized it's use in the macro world in which I'm so >>>> fond. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information