1D MK1V Sync Speed

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I use flashguns from my days of 35mm and I'm quite happy to do so in the type of photography I do. So I'm very surprised (and disappointed) when looking at the spec of a 1D mk1V to see the sync speed at 250/300th sec when my old 1D syncs a 500th.

I know you can use high speed flash wih the Speedlights but i really don't need all the TTL stuff and i feel that Canon certainly "pin your shirt up"on the price of these.

Any comments/observations welcome.
 
But the Nikon problem isn't quite so bad:)

Anyone for a RZ67 11?
 
Mahoneyd187 said:
Although it syncs at all speeds, the max shutter speed is 1/400s, it is on mine anyway :)
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True, but it's better all round and much less hassle than a hassie:)
 
Silver pixels said:
I use flashguns from my days of 35mm and I'm quite happy to do so in the type of photography I do. So I'm very surprised (and disappointed) when looking at the spec of a 1D mk1V to see the sync speed at 250/300th sec when my old 1D syncs a 500th.

I know you can use high speed flash wih the Speedlights but i really don't need all the TTL stuff and i feel that Canon certainly "pin your shirt up"on the price of these.

Any comments/observations welcome.
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Original 1D had an electronic shutter at higher speeds, made possible by the CCD sensor. Nikon D70, D40 etc were similar.

All modern cameras have CMOS sensors that are overall better, though CCDs survive in some compacts and medium format digitals.
 
Garry Edwards said:
True, but it's better all round and much less hassle than a hassie:)
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Amen to that! I've heard that exact statement before! Lol
 
EdBray said:
I take umbrage at that :nono: my Hassie sync with all my lenses at 1/800 sec :thumbs:
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Well so does mine. But it's still a b****r to use. The software situation very nearly made me cry the other day.
 
EdBray said:
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The Hasselblad Phocus software is, um, somewhat idiosyncratic. Short version: camera shoots in a format that other apps can understand, Phocus translates this into a format that nothing else can understand. This is especially problematic if you shoot tethered. Phocus doesn't fit into my workflow at all.

There appears to be some quirks of Adobe's effort at understanding Hasselblad files. Just rendering previews in LR the other day was enough to bring my machine to its knees to the point where nothing else would run even after it had finished. That's on a fairly decent MacPro with 11GB of memory. Exporting web quality previews for a client took c 15s per file. Online suggestions are not to run anything else at all especially web browsers running Flash which suggests some sort of memory leak at the heart of Adobe's code.

On days like that I look longingly at Phase....
 
I see (said the blind man), I don't have that trouble, I use flexcolor and save the fff file as a dng then open in Bridge/Adobe RAW etc
 
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