On Jul 3, 2010, at 1:56 AM, Bob W 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>
Interesting juxtaposition of Morris dancers and this: http://www.web-options.com/Pick2008/content/_6217916_large.html I can't quite figure out what's going on there such that there are lights in the shadow ring of one of the hula hoops. > > > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
