> All my FourThirds and Micro-FourThirds bodies allow me to enable > second curtain sync any time I want, with any flash. IIRC, both my > Sony R1 and my Canon 10D allowed the same. > > The algorithm is very simple: the flash is triggered about 300ms > before the second curtain is released. So it obviously works best with > exposure times of a half second or longer, but then that's when I'd > use second curtain sync anyway. >
I've found it most effective for my taste at 1/15th second, generally when there's already quite a lot of ambient light in the scene. These pictures from midsummer a few years ago are my most successful and (I think) effective efforts, shot at 1/15th. All shot with an Oly E-1 and Oly flash of some sort. Start here, and click through about 8 snaps: <http://www.web-options.com/Pick2008/content/_6207819_large.html> -- 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.
