control my nikon sound / motion trigger question

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Hi guys not sure if this is the right section so feel free to move thread if not :)

Basically I am pondering whether I could use control my Nikons softwares inbuilt motion and sound triggers for high speed water drop / collision photography?

I would love to give drop photography a proper go that takes some of the guesswork and randoms out of the equation but cannot currently afford a trigger system.

Thanks.
 
johnnypanic said:
Have you looked at triggertrap - www.triggertrap.com
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Yeah looked but I cannot afford £130 right now and the mobile android version does not support sound trigger and you need to spend £30 on cables (wife has been ok with £150 of photography purchases this month and saving for a deposit on a house) from them, with control my nikon I have everything I need to go and only need to buy the software.
 
I think the answer is no!

Basically it is not the camera shutter speed that catches the drop/splash/burst, but a very short burst of flash that freezes the movement.

What happens is the camera shutter is usually opened for a period in a darkened room, then as the drop of water passes through the trigger, it fires the flash (low power setting) which illuminates the splash and freezes the movement. Then the camera shutter closes.
hth.
 
I understand the theory of that approach but equally thought you could use the softwares trigger/s to set off the shutter which in turns sets off the flash that would stop the motion, I suppose my original question did not have enough details as I am sure control my nikon can do this but rather can it do it quickly enough to capture the water droplet from the inbuilt motion / sound trigger?
 
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Einholt said:
I understand the theory of that approach but equally thought you could use the softwares trigger/s to set off the shutter which in turns sets off the flash that would stop the motion, I suppose my original question did not have enough details as I am sure control my nikon can do this but rather can it do it quickly enough to capture the water droplet from the inbuilt motion / sound trigger?
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The requirement to freeze the action with the flash is what you are trying to achieve, and the degree of accuracy of timing required (milliseconds delay after drop passes through trigger before flash fires) is not possible without some type of processor/timer, that I think needs to be far more accurate and sophisticated than Control My Nikon.

I have no objection to being proved wrong, but if ControlMyNikon did the job, I don't think that anyone would have brought the triggers to market. I think that possibly the event would be over before the shutter had time to open completely.
 
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