Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I am late with this reply, but I have just now gotten our internet back on the air. We had a bad storm roll through here one and a half weeks ago and we had a branch from one of our trees come down right into our roof. Came through into our master bedroom and then through the wall into the computer room. The branch was 35 Ft. (10 meters?) long and approximately 2000 pounds. We are getting the rooms back together now, and will get a whole new roof out of the event. My M6TTL, R4SP, 135/2.8R lens and Nikon F3HP got covered in the process, so a trip to the camera hospitals is in order. A note here, Leica NJ is no longer working on M film cameras, they all go to Solms now for work. So mine will go to Sherry. No one was hurt, so that is the good news. Gene -------------- Original message from Barney Quinn <bjq1 at mac.com>: -------------- > > Wow! and Wow! again. Well done. > > Barney > > On Jul 31, 2009, at 8:34 PM, 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information