Lately, I've had an opportunity to look at some Kodachrome exposed with M2B blue flash bulbs. The character of the light is certainly different than that of electronic flash. A couple dozen of these could be in my very near future.
And now, of course, my dilemma. I'm hoping that a few of you have some experience with flash bulbs and can shed some, er, light on the situation. The chart here http://www.flashbulbs.com/bluebulb.htm suggests that these bulbs will X sync to 1/30. The manuals for the MX and SP500 recommend 1/15 at the fastest, while the K1000 manual recommends 1/30. This seems a bit odd to me. As this sort of photography is relatively expensive, I'd rather not experiment too much. (Kodachrome + processing + bulbs at $1per that may not fire) Does anyone recall how they may have used these bulbs? I'm guessing that I'd be safe at 1/15, but if I can squeeze out 1/30 I'd be happy. Thanks a bunch, folks! -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
