On 11 Jul 2005 at 9:55, Warren Marts wrote:
> > It is possible to use a peanut slave in some way to trip an electronic
> > shutter?
>
> I don't know about that, but there is something called a lightning
> trigger. Since a single "bolt" of lightning is often ~5 discharges
> over several hundred milliseconds, it can trip the shutter and get good
> results.
>
> A quick web search revealed some homemade optical triggers, but the
> most sensitive are ones that use radio frequency energy. The only
> commerical product I saw mentioned was from lightningtrigger.com
> (though their site was not reachable by me at this time ;-( ) A quick
> web search will yeild several field accounts from photographers.
>
> Naturally you need a camera with an electric remote control socket and
> little lag time...
Creativity is bliss when trying to justify the purchase of an RT or
1nRS....;))
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Willem-Jan Markerink
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is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand
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