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that doesn't cost an arm, leg, or kidney?
I've been thinking about different ways to
achieve HSS disregarding strobe location.
practical, ridiculous, or not:
1) electronic shutter camera
-most flexible
-limited only by duration of strobe
-shorter duration strobes are always better
-commonly available dslrs are old with lower resolution
2) brand specific camera + brand specific hotshoe flash
-limited by power of hotshoe flash
-limited to brand specific hotshoe flash
3) focal plane shutter camera
-requires timing curtain opening & strobe firing
-with a strobe t0.5 equal to curtain speed one can only get 1/2 max power of strobe setting and ~1:1 light reduction from strobe thereafter.
-limited by speed of shutter curtains
-the slower the curtain speed of the shutter the longer duration strobe setting needed
-long duration strobes or flash bulbs give better, more even, results
-prone to reduced exposure/gradation from strobe in direction/tail of curtain travel
-faster shutter speeds than curtain speed = wasted power
-less efficient than #2 and requires experimentation
A) Canon:
-must use one of the following:
1) brand specific speedlite mounted on hotshoe capable of HSS + optical trigger
2) at least one PW flex/mini mounted on hotshoe? (maybe multimax?)
3) at least one radio popper mounted on hotshoe? (+brand specific hotshoe flash)?
B) Nikon
-must use any nikon auto FP capable flash mounted on camera hotshoe & use speedlight pc sync port (or camera pc sync port?)
4) Leaf shuttered lens
-dependent upon speed of leaf shutter in the lens
-MF or larger systems
-typically limited to 1/500
-may be possible to use canon 35mm body because it can mount wide array of lenses through adapters, but one pays a penalty with no AF, possibly no ttl metering, and must always use mirror lockup. could be a ridiculous hassle to time ML, focal plane shutter, and leaf shutter for exposure.
5) Mirrors
-When outdoors with/without strobes this could be an option under some conditions
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