lighthound wrote:
I'm not a flash guy but I'm curious how a flash can fire fast enough doing focus bracketing.
Isn't recycle time something like 1.2 sec. on the EL-5? How does that work when the camera is banging off 20 or 30fps?
I know I'm missing something here.
At near distances and moderate aperture (here it was f/8) and ISO (400), flash output will be far below full power and allow higher fps shooting. Theoretically at 1/16 power and lower, the flash should easily do 12 images.
rscheffler wrote:
At near distances and moderate aperture (here it was f/8) and ISO (400), flash output will be far below full power and allow higher fps shooting. Theoretically at 1/16 power and lower, the flash should easily do 12 images.
Ah ok. So the recycle time is greatly reduced and can fire nearly continously at the lower power.
I didn't know they could fire that fast. Impressive!
I tend to use about 1/32 power for these kinds of images. As stated the flash recycles very quickly. I actually shot 25 images and used 12 to keep the background moss out of focus; the flash never paused.
The EL-5 is great BTW. Rechargeable lithium battery (with the standard Canon battery charger), intuitive to use, and relatively inexpensive.
Hi Stanj, Simply wonderful owl photos in this thread! Thanks for sharing with us. By the way, the trees look like eucalyptus trees - were these taken in Australia?
RobAmy, your photos are always great to look at. It sure looks like you are having fun with the 100-300 w/ and w/o the extenders - seems to be a good combination and very versatile. Thanks for sharing.
TakesRandomPics wrote:
What was the reason for electronic vs manual shutter? Higher speed?
The focus stack mechanism on the R5m2 was used. It uses only electronic shutter regardless of the camera settings. TBH I'm very happy with the electronic shutter in this camera and have used the mechanical shutter only once, mostly to test it out.
QuantumLight wrote:
Hi Stanj, Simply wonderful owl photos in this thread! Thanks for sharing with us. By the way, the trees look like eucalyptus trees - were these taken in Australia?
Thanks! No, the photos were taken in Santa Cruz, CA. Eucalyptus trees are quite common in this general area, not sure how much beyond or how they got here, but in SC and in the hills around here in Los Gatos and Saratoga we have lots of them, and GHOs love them.
stanj wrote:
Thanks! No, the photos were taken in Santa Cruz, CA. Eucalyptus trees are quite common in this general area, not sure how much beyond or how they got here, but in SC and in the hills around here in Los Gatos and Saratoga we have lots of them, and GHOs love them.
I think they originally imported the eucalyptus for use as railroad ties since the trees grow really fast. It turned out the wood is too soft. They're all over San Diego.
osidesurfer wrote:
I think they originally imported the eucalyptus for use as railroad ties since the trees grow really fast. It turned out the wood is too soft. They're all over San Diego.
Interesting note, the problem was that they compared the wood from old growth trees in Australia (very well suited for ties) to new growth in California (tended to warp during drying and were actually too hard to take spikes once dried)
