Jim, Can't help you there. I have a Toshiba PDR-M65...a 3.3 megapixel camera that takes very good hi-res pics, but it is certainly not one that I'd choose for any high speed photos, with a max shutter speed of 1/500th. It's a great camera for Smoky Mountains scenery and grandchildren's birthdays...not so great for sports. Toshiba didn't waste any money on their manual, that's for sure. The one that comes with the camera barely gets you started and leaves you wondering what all the other buttons and icons really do. But, the real manual is on their web site...to print out...and it is over half an inch of copy paper thick. Haven't even begun to get through that thing yet. Next time, I think I'll look for a camera with a sensible, well organized and to-the-point manual before I even look at the camera. :-)
Bernie Writeto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "James T. Voorhies, Consultant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 4:38 PM Subject: RE: ShopTalk: 20 min talk and questions about Multiburst pictures. > Bernie and all, > > I have been in the market for a digital camera for some time now and have > narrowed my search down to two. > The Sony DSC-F717 and the Nikon KoolPix 5700. > > They both have fast shutter speeds 1/2000 and 1/4000 respectively. > > One of the features of each is that they can create a multishot/multiburst > single picture collage > of 16 shots of high speed motion sequences at 320x240 or 640x480, depending > on the camera or mode > selected. I have heard in test reviews and advertisements that they can > then print a 16X20 picture > of the captured high speed 16 shots, but have seen no examples of such. > > When I was taking lots of pictures years ago with a Cannon A1, I bought a > multiburst Flash > attachment that would flash a series of 5, 10 or 15 flash strobes on the > same negative using your > existing high speed flash. I fooled around with it quite a bit and got some > decent shots of golf > swings. Also got some pictures of bumble bees flying around on a flower that > were interesting too. > > Various moves have misplaced for now these pictures, but this thread got me > interested and have > started looking for the multi-flash unit. I used it with a Sunpack Flash > which I may have sold, > and the unit too. > > Anyway, my question and interest here is does anyone have either of the two > digital cameras, > the KoolPix 5700 or the Sony DSC-F717. I think my choice is the 5700, but > they do not have > USB 2.0 yet and the Sony F-717 does. The Sony also has a better low light > focusing system, > but has other features lacking that the 5700 does have. > > If you do have either of these cameras, would be interested in the high > speed multishot > or multiburst functionality of either one. > > When I get the chance, will visit a dealer that has one of each and see for > myself, but just > wondered if anyone had experience with these cameras and the high speed > capture mode they claim > to have. > > Thanks in advance, > > Dr. Voo > RxGolf Custom Clubs > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bernie Baymiller > Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 2:25 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ShopTalk: 20 min talk > > > Alan, > > Yes, my dad worked with Edgerton, Germehausen and H. E. Grier at Spalding > making a lot of ultra high speed photos of Bobby Jones and Jimmy Thompson > (among others) in the late 1930s. Dad was Director of Golf Research working > under Lab Director J. Victor East at that time. Most of Edgerton's multiple > strobe exposures of the golf swing were at 1/100,000 of a second with a > 1/100 second interval. Two of these are in the BJ pics on John's Resource > Page. Spalding also developed a machine to analyze and pull data from the > photos (Stroke-ometer Graph method). I have some of this material in my > files and have sent a few of BJs and JTs velocity and acceleration charts to > Dave, Graham and a few others. If you would like any particular scans of any > of this material, let me know. One of those sequences was of ball > impact...showed ball was on face for .0004 seconds. That series of 8 pics is > the last photo on the Clubmaker Online Resource Page BJ swing series (#12). > > >Even at 1/1500 of a second exposure time, timed just at > > impact, the shutter will be open for the entire impact/rebound process and > > all you would see is a blur. > > Even blurred, it might show the shaft and hand position, which is what I > think Graham was interested in seeing...if he can luck out on the timing and > get the blurred shot just prior to impact. If he can shoot a video sequence > on his camera, and starts shooting as the downswing starts, I think he'd > have a better chance of getting one pic near impact than if he tried to time > one shot by eyeball method. Have no idea what the downswing to impact time > is, but if a whole swing tempo is about 1.4 seconds, the downswing could be > about a quarter of a second? At 30 frames a second, he could get maybe four > or five pics of the down swing? Don't know, but guess it would be fun to > try. > > Bernie > Writeto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >
