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Subject: [Leica] Thunderstorm last night
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor)
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:43:04 -0400
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That's a real rouser of a shot.  Gotta' try that myself sometime.

Regards,

Dick



On Jul 31, 2009, at 8:34 PM, 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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