[Leica] Thunderstorm last night

[mark at whitedogs.co.uk (Mark Pope)]

Aram,

that's a stunning image.  Worthy of a large print.


Cheers


Mark
Aram Langhans wrote:
> Forgive the possible multiple posts, but my last two attempts came back 
> to me.
> 
> We had a small thunderstorm roll through at dusk yesterday.  I have 
> never seen lightning at this time of the day, where there was still some 
> color in the sky and clouds, so I thought I'd give it a try.  I shot 50 
> frames and only caught lightning on two of them.  Had the camera (Rebel 
> XTi) set on sequential exposure, and the shutter at 5 or 8 seconds, and 
> the cable release clicked on so I did not have to stand there.  It would 
> fire one shot, then write it to disk then fire the next shot.  Last time 
> I did this was with my R8 and motor winder and it worked well.  Problem 
> with the digital Rebel is that after each 5 second exposure it took 
> about 10 seconds to write the info to the card before it took the next 
> shot.  So, I missed about 66% of the time.  And, every time I saw a 
> great bolt, I looked over to the camera and it was still writing the 
> previous exposure.  Drats.  Maybe a 50 D would write faster?  I think it 
> has something to do with the null exposure when using long shutter 
> speeds.  Maybe I could turn that off if I looked at the manual.
> 
> did catch this one, however.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/-7.jpg.html
> 
> comments and criticism welcome.
> 
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