Flash synch help

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A couple of quick questions from someone who struggles to understand flash.

I want to use a Nikon sb800 flash unit with a yashica 124g

The contact on the camera is a female PC .

There are two sockets on the sb800 one is also a female PC which i think i can use to connect to a camera.

So if i buy a male/male synch cord and link thé two together i'll have light when i hit the shutter button.... Right??

Also thé Mat has a leaf shutter so does this mean i can use the flash at any shutter speed and obtain succesful results??
 
Whoops posted in wrong section.....can someone move it please? @TheBigYin @Yv

Cheers
 
Nah too modern ..i generally use gunpowder and shoot at F/1016 to keep glare to a minimum :D:D
 
Cheers Paul
 
Yv said:
For my own future reference, can someone explain why a leaf shutter allows any shutter speed?
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No!...stop being lazy and go Google it instead of poaching my threads! :D:D:D
 
Explains it better than i can.... Quoted from wikipedia

As for digi.....how dare you ask in hère....we know nothing about such equipment! Lol

The leaf shutter allows synchronising flash at every available shutter speed, due to the fact that the whole picture area is exposed simultaneously, which is not always the case using the focal plane shutter.

http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Leaf_shutter
 
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*sniff* I googled it, at least the big G is my friend :sulk: I get it now.


I told you I didn't do technical, I generally have little interest in how something works, only what the end results are and getting what I want. :lol: Cue the abuse from the guys who wants to know the ins and outs of everything.
 
its easier to cut/paste than formulate your own reply..:)

The mechanical focal-plane shutter of film 35mm SLR cameras and Leicas are two curtains of metal or cloth that zip across the front of the film. At slow speeds like a full second they zip fast enough to appear to open and close immediately.

What's not obvious to the naked eye at fast shutter speeds is that the second curtain has to start zipping across the film right behind the first curtain. It has to do this because the curtain speed is not instantaneous. At fast shutter speeds the film is effectively exposed through a slit that zips across the film.

If you pop a flash at one of these faster speeds then only the part of the film behind the open part of the slit would be exposed to the flash.

The sync speed is the fastest speed at which the entire film or CCD can be open to light. This is determined by how fast the shutter curtains move.


Leaf shutters as used in professional cameras like the Hasselblad and large format cameras can sync at any speed. This is because their leaves open completely at all speeds, at which point the flash is fired. There is no slit or partial opening at the fastest speeds.
 
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