Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My interest in macro and high speed flash photography were inspired by Eric Hosking and Stephen Dalton. Hosking took some ground breaking bird in flight pictures in his time, and Stephen Dalton invented and made his own shutter and flash system fast enough to capture insects as they passed the sensor in his novel "tank". I have been fascinated ever since! cheers, FD On 26 Jul, 2012, at 09:27, Mark Rabiner wrote: > 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/