Why do I get half the picture when I use strobes???

[shafiq]

Hi All,

I am having a brain freeze. I setup my camera and strobes. Attached my safe sync and did a test shot. The picture from about half-way down (horizontally) comes black. Its like it gets cut-off...any idea what I am doing wrong!

If you tilt the camera side ways then the same thing happens except the dark area is vertical now.

Thanks
Shafiq
:roll:

[Jesper]

Your shutter speed is too fast. Try 1/60 second.

[PacAce]

Hi All,

I am having a brain freeze. I setup my camera and strobes. Attached my safe sync and did a test shot. The picture from about half-way down (horizontally) comes black. Its like it gets cut-off...any idea what I am doing wrong!

If you tilt the camera side ways then the same thing happens except the dark area is vertical now.

Thanks
Shafiq
:roll:
Your shutter speed is probably set to 1/400 or faster. Set it to 1/200 or lower and you should be OK.

[shafiq]

Thanks everyone. You were spot on. I had my shutter speed set to 1/500th sec. Making it slower helped :)