I didn't think about that William but to me you're right. Even Palm devices years ago had to get a fix otherwise the screen would flicker under Fluo lighting. Often on TV they have that problem, Shot a Video of a CRT monitor and you're in trouble rather quickly.
50Hz indeed in Europe. It'd suck to be such limited in Studio IMO although there're probably a lot of other things of bigger importance. 2010/10/2 William Robb <[email protected]>: > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "P. J. Alling > Subject: Re: About Studio Lighting kinds > >> The production studio I worked with last year used 3200K balanced >> florescent tubes for everything. Didn't see a real tungsten light anywhere. >> The lights ran much cooler. I'm pretty sure that even small studio >> photographic lighting will be going that route eventually. I don't think >> it's the best idea, but it is what will happen. > > The problem with florescent lights is flicker, and you need to keep shutter > speeds quite slow ensure that it isn't a problem. > I think you are pushing your luck shooting faster than 1/30 second with > fluorescents, in Europe, where the AC cycles at 50 hz rather than 60hz, I'm > guessing that shooting faster than 1/25second is asking for trouble. > > William Robb > > -- > 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. > -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs ---------------------- Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ ... Laptop: Macbook 13" Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 Programing: Delphi 2009 -- 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.
