Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric Hosking's and Stephen Dalton's work is indeed inspiring, but you should also take a look at the work of John Brackenbury, Frank - a Cambridge academic who uses extremely high power, extremely short-duration electronic flash for images of insects in flight with extremely wide depth of field. The results are most certainly not what you might expect, and http://www.myfinepix.co.uk/article/7/36 gives a flavour of his work. He is a bit less than forthcoming about the self-designed and assembled equipment he uses (and was no more forthcoming when I arranged for him to address a camera club a few years ago) but from the snippets I have garnered, I think he is using some sort of Frazier lens (that is, an extremely short focal length CCTV lens, with a macro lens to relay its image to the film/sensor), along with the flash and laser triggering. And an elaborate 'tank' with UV lighting to entice the subjects along the desired flight path. Easy enough to knock together when you have the University of Cambridge engineering labs at hand! Piers -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+piers.hemy=gmail.com at leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+piers.hemy=gmail.com at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Frank Dernie Sent: 26 July 2012 10:25 To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] A new M from Canon My interest in macro and high speed flash photography were inspired by Eric Hosking and Stephen Dalton. Hosking took some ground breaking bird in flight pictures in his time, and Stephen Dalton invented and made his own shutter and flash system fast enough to capture insects as they passed the sensor in his novel "tank". I have been fascinated ever since! cheers, FD On 26 Jul, 2012, at 09:27, Mark Rabiner wrote: > I meant to write not hugely faster shutter speeds then before but > hugely higher shutter ISO's. I think shutter speeds leveled out at an > 8000th a couple of decades ago. But flash duration close up can be > very much faster I see we get > 1/41600 sec. at M1/128 output with my SB800 flash and I'm sure heads > similar but I cant see why it can't be ever faster than that with the > flash head a foot or two away from your bumble bee. You've got a shot > of actually freezing his wings in motion. And that's not with a > special high speed flash which I'm sure exists somewhere. > > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information