frank theriault wrote:
> I've got enough things to think about when I'm shooting. Firing the flash
> manually when I reckon the end of a 1/15th second time span is near, just
> ain't gonna happen! <vbg>
For a while I've been thinking that one of these days I need to
take a close look at the exploded diagram of an S3 or S1a to see
whether it'd be feasible to modify it to use trailing-curtain
sync. (They've got two PC sockets -- "X" and "FP" -- so as long
as I never intended to use flashbulbs with that particular body,
I could wire trailing-curtain to the "FP" socket, assuming it's
possible at all.) I need to check for clues in the slow-speed
timing mechanism. Something needs to happen there just before
the shutter closes, consistently enough to be usable at several
speeds, that I can poke a wire at.
Even more clever would be to do it to a Spotmatic so that the
flash shoe could be switched between leading-curtain and
trailing-curtain.
-- Glenn
