in a serious vein, my son discovered that his Nikon D70, when using a wireless trigger, will not only fire a flash at 1/500 to 1/2000 sec, it will also sync. We tried it with my Oly EP-1 and it does the same at 1/500 sec.
Walt On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Jens <[email protected]> wrote: > In order to solve the problem described below, I wonder if it is at all > possible to fire a flash at 1/1000 secs? > > I have discovered, that if I fire the camera at 1/1000 secs a split second > after activating the RTF, it will actually fire, as long as the RFT is not > fully charged yet. > > Is there a way to engage such a function - for instance in a mode designed > for strobo flash functions? > > Regards > Jens > > -- > Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. > > On Nov 12, 2009 20:52 "Jens" <[email protected]> wrote: >> Actually, Peter. >> This is a brilliant question. Now why didn't I think of that? >> I made a small in-door test. It seems that it does not work below >> 1/160 sec. But the software will tag the images same as previous ones, >> shot at above 1/160 sec. >> So in practice this is not too much of a problem, if you know this in >> advance - and if you remember to take a few shots above 1/160 every >> time you chang location. >> >> But afterall, this really is a draw back, I believe. And the Danish >> Pentax importer recommended this for Pentax. I guess he had no idea >> :-( >> I will have to tell him asap. >> >> Regards >> Jens >> >> >> >> I'll make a test in daylight tomorrow using >> >> -- >> Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. >> >> On Nov 12, 2009 14:27 "Peter Loveday" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > It wont work out of the hot-shoe/flash connection. >> > > It only records data whenever the shutter is fired. >> > > That's actuelly the beauty of the whole koncept :-) >> > >> > Given that, as far as I can tell, Pentax cameras annoyingly refuse >> > to >> > fire >> > the flash if you're above sync speed, does this work at higher >> > shutter >> > speeds? >> > >> > - Peter >> > >> > >> > -- >> > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> > [email protected] >> > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >> > and >> > follow the directions. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
