On 7/26/06, Brian Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've been noticing some interference in some photos lately. One set was while > photographing at a backdrop with two flash units directly connected by wires > to a DS's hot shoe. The other set was while roaming around a venue with a > different DS with a Pocket Wizard transmitter and a local flash attached to > the DS's hot shoe. > > These are both new DS cameras. On the first, the backdrop photos were > connected with 10-15 feet of wires, ISO 200, and every now and then a photo > would have fairly heavy wave patterns in the darker parts of the entire > image, kind of like the waves you get on a TV set when the tuner is not quite > right. Only some photos though, as if someone was occasionally powering up a > big CB or Ham radio nearby. It looked like the image was pasted onto flag > waving in the breeze. > > The other time the waves were a slightly different kind of pattern, and they > seem to only be in some of the high ISO photos taken with the Pocket Wizard > transmitter turned off but still connected. This environment had a lot of > people running around with business radios being put to fairly heavy use. > > I'll try clamping an RFI choke to the synch cable, but I'm surprised that this > has happened in the first place, on two different cameras. > > Has anyone else seen this yet? >
I've been taking photographs since my parents got me a Brownie Starflash in the early 60's. Some would say that even then the seeds of my current "look" were there. I've never come across your problem. What kind of film do you use? cheers, frank <vbg> -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
