[Leica] Thunderstorm last night

[leicar at q.com (Aram Langhans)]

Thanks to all for the nice comments about my photo.  Too many to reply to 
easily using the digest, so I'll piggy back them all on Lluis's reply.  I 
have some large paper for my printer and will make at least an 11x14 if not 
larger as soon as I replace the two cartridges that are low.  Don't want to 
run out of ink in the middle of a large print.

Predicting a slight possibility of thunder storms tonight and tomorrow, so I 
am ready.  I took the camera out of the dark frame noise reduction so I will 
not have to wait for that and miss the shots.

Aram

> From: Lluis Ripoll <luisripoll at telefonica.net>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Thunderstorm last night
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> Stunning image!
>
> Saludos
> Lluis
>
> El 01/08/2009, a las 2:34, Aram Langhans escribi?:
>
>> 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.
>>