Timeline for Which is faster for flashes, radio triggers or optical triggers?
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| Sep 8, 2011 at 7:41 | vote | accept | Daniel T. | ||
| Feb 9, 2011 at 6:01 | comment | added | Greg | You can do it on a Canon 1D, which syncs at 1/500 minimum. Many bodies can actually go higher if you are shooting manually. I was testing in a small area so the signal only had to travel about ten feet to the strobe head and remote trigger. I was actually testing duration on a WL1600 head at 1/4 power seeing if I could stop the fan blades on a ceiling fan, when I realized I was well over 1/1000 and the image was still sharp and I didn't have black bars. That 1/500 sync is a great reason to keep one of those bodies around because it lets you drop ambient by one stop more. | |
| Feb 9, 2011 at 5:27 | comment | added | ysap | how exactly are you able to shoot at 1/1000 sec without seeing black bars? What camera do you use? The average SLR has a sync speed of 1/250. Anything faster than that will yield blackened areas in your frame, unless you use High Speed Sync mode (which, AFAIK, is only supported in newer PW's). | |
| Feb 9, 2011 at 3:24 | history | answered | Greg | CC BY-SA 2.5 |