I have shot Finnish major league basketball with the LX and AF 280 T flash, no winder, no motor drive - successfully - enough for a cover of a book. Do not worry! It can be done. All the best! Raimo Personal photography homepage at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen
-----Alkuper�inen viesti----- L�hett�j�: Nick Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vastaanottaja: PDML <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> P�iv�: 30. joulukuuta 2001 19:20 Aihe: MZ-S and flash capabilities... >Hey all, > I've got some questions about the MZ-S and it's flash system. At my >position at the paper, my primary duty is to shoot sports. If there is an >editorial assignment and a basketball game at the same time, the basketball >game has my priority (generally speaking). So I was pretty dissapointed that >the top "normal" flash sync of the MZ-S is only 180th of a sec, just a wee >shy of what I'd like to shoot at. Alot of ppl think that the 2.5 frames per >second motor drive would be a greater inconvenience but I don't use a >machine gun method for sports anyway. Anyway, flash is very important >because few of the stadiums that I shoot at have enough light to make good >exposures without it. So my question is mainly what kind of power loss are >we looking at when using the new 360fgz when in high speed sync mode? >Obviously I wouldn't expect to get good exposures with the camera set to >1/6000, but, for example, what's the flash's max distance with the camera >set to 250th with 800iso film? What about with the shutter set to 1/500th? >Thanks in advance for any help. > >-- >Nick - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
