RIR
Suspended / Banned
- Messages
- 1,311
- Name
- Robert
- Edit My Images
- Yes
Any opinion on these? Specifically: http://srb-photographic.co.uk/canon-motion-and-lightning-sensor-5901-p.asp
TIA
TIA
Motion and Lightning Sensor
- Thread starter RIR
- Start date
- Messages
- 11,633
- Name
- Doug
- Edit My Images
- Yes
Looks like an interesting piece of kit.
I have zero experience of it, but I noticed this in the write up "The lightning mode has a 0.1millisecond response time."
That may not always be fast enough. Lightning bolts last for a few micro seconds although there is often several of them so close together that the human eye sees them all as one. (Also humans perceive lightning bolts as lasting much longer than a a few millionths of a second because the brightness of the light over stimulates the retina causing there to be a residual image, i.e. the brain is seeing something that is no longer there). I don't think that camera sensors will do that.
Maybe getting lightning pics with that kit will still need a bit of luck. Just like leaving the shutter open for a while does.
If you buy it let us know how it performs. If it works for moving subjects like birds etc. it could prove very handy.
I have zero experience of it, but I noticed this in the write up "The lightning mode has a 0.1millisecond response time."
That may not always be fast enough. Lightning bolts last for a few micro seconds although there is often several of them so close together that the human eye sees them all as one. (Also humans perceive lightning bolts as lasting much longer than a a few millionths of a second because the brightness of the light over stimulates the retina causing there to be a residual image, i.e. the brain is seeing something that is no longer there). I don't think that camera sensors will do that.
Maybe getting lightning pics with that kit will still need a bit of luck. Just like leaving the shutter open for a while does.
If you buy it let us know how it performs. If it works for moving subjects like birds etc. it could prove very handy.
OP
RIR
Suspended / Banned
- Messages
- 1,311
- Name
- Robert
- Edit My Images
- Yes
Cheers for that ☺
- Messages
- 11,633
- Name
- Doug
- Edit My Images
- Yes
https://www.amazon.com/Micnova-Lightning-photographing-wildlife-security/dp/B00EX5ZU1C
Amazon reviews are not necessarily an ideal way of judging products, but there is enough in these reviews to suggest being wary of that purchase.
Amazon reviews are not necessarily an ideal way of judging products, but there is enough in these reviews to suggest being wary of that purchase.