[LRflex] Re: Thunderstorm last night
- From: "Aram Langhans" <leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:12:23 -0700
Thanks Steve. I'll have to dig out the manual and see if that is something I
can mess around with. I wonder what the effect of disabling that function will
be on the noise. Have to try.
Aram
From: Steve Lang
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 12:38 PM
To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [LRflex] Re: Thunderstorm last night
Hi Aram,
I really like this one! The exposure is perfect, great detail in the clouds.
I wonder if the XTi is doing long exposure noise reduction, and that's it's
taking so long in between shots. If so, you might be able to turn that off in
the custom functions?
Steve
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Aram Langhans <leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
Aram
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