[LRflex] Re: Thunderstorm last night

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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