Here's my K10D/540 combo work with trailing curtain: http://www.primelensphoto.com/trailing_curtain/index.html
-Brendan ----- Original Message ---- > From: P N Stenquist <[email protected]> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Sent: Sat, July 3, 2010 8:20:21 AM > Subject: Re: Thoughts on Trailing Curtain Sync > > Trailing curtain synch with K10D and FA 540 > flash. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6315560&size=lg On Jul 3, > 2010, at 11:08 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at > 1:56 AM, Bob W <> href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]> > wrote: >>> 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> > > > Thanks for the photos ... good stuff! > > The trigger lead > time is shorter than I wrote. A 125 second flash burn > is 8 ms and that's > a long burn; they probably do trigger with 30 ms > lead, not 300. > :-) > > --Godfrey > > href="http://godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com";>godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com > > > --PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > ymailto="mailto:[email protected]"; > href="mailto:[email protected]";>[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 > ymailto="mailto:[email protected]"; > href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected] > href="http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net"; target=_blank > >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.
