Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Aram, that's a stunning image. Worthy of a large print. Cheers Mark Aram Langhans wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark Pope, Swindon, Wilts UK Homepage http://www.monomagic.co.uk Blog http://www.monomagic.co.uk/blog Picture a week (2009) http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2009 (2008) http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2008