Kiwi - GKPE - New and Improved General Ramblings (5)

Nzshrimper wrote in post #5980399
tony for the love of god don't go anywhere this weekend...

they say things happen in 3's

1 harddrive
2 wrist
3 ?? ??

akiwi wrote in post #5980426
Oh... so you are going then.

someone Send me a PM please.

Chris I will die doing what I love not in some rest home at the age of 80.
Sandra will have a freehold house, Kids computers and cameras and I will finally get some peace

Akiwi........ if I can I will, Whatipu may provide the best spot due to the Entrence to the Manukau and the shelter bay with surf like conditions.
Also a safe spot as long as you stay away from the edges.
Long as no roads get washed out.


Oh people may pay to unplug all electrical stuff as the storm the other night has blowen 2 onboard nics and made my switch a lttle dicky

weka2000 wrote in post #5980586
Chris I will die doing what I love not in some rest home at the age of 80.
Sandra will have a freehold house, Kids computers and cameras and I will finally get some peace

haha - thinking of everyone else untill the last.. how noble

weka2000 wrote in post #5980586
Oh people may pay to unplug all electrical stuff as the storm the other night has blowen 2 onboard nics and made my switch a lttle dicky

hows the pacemaker still

weka2000 wrote in post #5980586
...Sandra will have a freehold house, Kids computers and cameras and I will finally get some peace ...

Oh people may pay to unplug all electrical stuff as the storm the other night has blowen 2 onboard nics and made my switch a lttle dicky

and cameras? so, can you run why you're actually going to the coast by us again please?

yeh the last thing this thread needs is more little dickys...

Nzshrimper wrote in post #5980613
haha - thinking of everyone else untill the last.. how noble

Maybe, maybe not. If he dies doing what he loves it could be a number of things. He may even die 'saving the world' or taking pictures...or both!! Lets face it, he'll be saving the world while taking pictures, drinking Baileys, listening to some 60s muso while telling someone somewhere to feck off. OOooooooooooooooo (that's my vain attempt at oral humour through the written media.)

somethingsimple wrote in post #5980622
and cameras? so, can you run why you're actually going to the coast by us again please?

yeh the last thing this thread needs is more little dickys...

Cause I can (kids want video camera as well if I die). Its only a storm. Drowning is not that bad trust me been there experenced that.
Last time I went out in exterme weather my pics end up on the friday TV news ....photos of the week thingy.

Well ive been called a big pr1ck on more than one occasion never been called a little dicky

tag141 wrote in post #5980624
Maybe, maybe not. If he dies doing what he loves it could be a number of things. He may even die 'saving the world' or taking pictures...or both!! Lets face it, he'll be saving the world while taking pictures, drinking Baileys, listening to some 60s muso while telling someone somewhere to feck off. OOooooooooooooooo (that's my vain attempt at oral humour through the written media.)

Hey all my pleasure in 1

Nzshrimper wrote in post #5980613
haha - thinking of everyone else untill the last.. how noble
hows the pacemaker still

Yeah right.....I just want my departure to be quick and painless.

Evening all.

It cold outside.

How do I know this?

Just had to re-float my concrete because the bl**dy cats have been having a dance on it

Coupled with this late re-floating and the fact that the concrete was almost 2 hours late, means I will be finish trowling it about 10 tonight, when it will be even bl**dy colder outside.

How has everyone elses day been?

ok, serious photography question but I'll put it here for #@&*'s and giggles.

struggling to understand flash sync on my 40D. i know what it is and how it works basically. What I don't get is how it gets its speed. The manual says my 40D has a max flash sync speed of 1/250. I don't think I have ever got more than 1/200 and even when I get 1/200 sometimes it has the start of the unsyncing (black vignette along the bottom) Now I really want to get this sorted and know what to expect as a huge amount of my photography as most of you know is using off camera flash.

Why can't I get 1/250 constantly like the manual says?
Why sometimes to I have to drop to 1/160 to avoid syncing artifacts? (this is rare but does happen and has ruined a few good photos as its only noticeable on pc screen)

Chocolate fish and mucho appreciation to the best answer

Mark, a couple of things:

Firstly, are you using radio triggers when your experiancing these sync problems? A lot of radio triggers struggle to attain the max flash sync of the camera due to the delay that the triggers have.

Fastest are Optical triggers followed by P/Wizards, probably then followed by Skyports.
Some of the cheaper triggers are very poor performers and their performance drops off dramatically as the battery dies.

Secondly, there are tolerances in the sync speed. Some people can consistantly get 1/320th but in actual fact probably are not, the shutter is not an overly accurate device, probalby accurate to +/- 25%. at th faster speeds. Probably fairly accurate at anything less that 1/5 second.

In answer to one of your earlier questions, the 1d Classic (first version) has a sync speed of 1/500 due to its different shutter type.

EDIT: Rather have a Moro bar than choc fishy!

Well I have absolutely no knowledge of flash, and especially off camera flash.
So like most people on this forum I'm over qualified to answer, so here goes.

It's either a timing issue or the portable flux capacitor that will be causing trouble. I suggest you buy the newest Canon flash and your troubles will disappear, but if they don't it's user error and you are an idiot and have to RTFM.

Sancho wrote in post #5980741
ok, serious photography question but I'll put it here for #@&*'s and giggles.

struggling to understand flash sync on my 40D. i know what it is and how it works basically. What I don't get is how it gets its speed. The manual says my 40D has a max flash sync speed of 1/250. I don't think I have ever got more than 1/200 and even when I get 1/200 sometimes it has the start of the unsyncing (black vignette along the bottom) Now I really want to get this sorted and know what to expect as a huge amount of my photography as most of you know is using off camera flash.

Why can't I get 1/250 constantly like the manual says?
Why sometimes to I have to drop to 1/160 to avoid syncing artifacts? (this is rare but does happen and has ruined a few good photos as its only noticeable on pc screen)

Chocolate fish and mucho appreciation to the best answer

What Mark said. Post details of flashes too. Can you describe syncing artifacts? Usually they're in the form of part of the photo being blacked out which are easy to see on camera screen?

Mark Vuleta wrote in post #5980784
Mark, a couple of things:

Firstly, are you using radio triggers when your experiancing these sync problems? A lot of radio triggers struggle to attain the max flash sync of the camera due to the delay that the triggers have.

Fastest are Optical triggers followed by P/Wizards, probably then followed by Skyports.
Some of the cheaper triggers are very poor performers and their performance drops off dramatically as the battery dies.

Secondly, there are tolerances in the sync speed. Some people can consistantly get 1/320th but in actual fact probably are not, the shutter is not an overly accurate device, probalby accurate to +/- 25%. at th faster speeds. Probably fairly accurate at anything less that 1/5 second.

In answer to one of your earlier questions, the 1d Classic (first version) has a sync speed of 1/500 due to its different shutter type.

EDIT: Rather have a Moro bar than choc fishy!

Yeah, most of the time its using my el cheapo radio triggers, havn't overly experimented between using the triggers with my canon flash V the nikons but don't think that would be it.

With the transmitter attached to the camera it won't even physically go to 1/250, the only time it does is with the flash actually on the hotshoe (sometimes) ... just seem to be soo many inconsistancies with it. Be good to work out a pattern or know what I am going to get.

I did notice the other day when I was firing 5 flashes that 80% of the time 1 was firing a tad lat and wasnt showing anywheer near as bright in the shot. Wonder if it ws simply a low battery in that receiver.

Raikyn wrote in post #5980785
Well I have absolutely no knowledge of flash, and especially off camera flash.
So like most people on this forum I'm over qualified to answer, so here goes.

It's either a timing issue or the portable flux capacitor that will be causing trouble. I suggest you buy the newest Canon flash and your troubles will disappear, but if they don't it's user error and you are an idiot and have to RTFM.

Bl**dy cats, anyone got a shot gun?

Mark: Have a look at this tread, cant remember if they tested the Cactus type triggers but there is some good info in it:
https://photography-on-the.net …9444&highlight=​sync+speed

klippe wrote in post #5980450
I hate movies with cryptic titles.

Does anyone know what the movie "Snakes on a plane" is about?

who knows? anyone go & see it?

weka2000 wrote in post #5980586
Oh people may pay to unplug all electrical stuff as the storm the other night has blowen 2 onboard nics and made my switch a lttle dicky

can't have a dicky switch can we. Mind you, thunderstorms could well be natures way of dishing out darwin awards to badly built electrical equipment.

Mark Vuleta wrote in post #5980731
Evening all.

It cold outside.

How do I know this?

Just had to re-float my concrete because the bl**dy cats have been having a dance on it

Coupled with this late re-floating and the fact that the concrete was almost 2 hours late, means I will be finish trowling it about 10 tonight, when it will be even bl**dy colder outside.

How has everyone elses day been?

and here we were thinking you had an ideal day to lay concrete. Do you not have an slug gun? In the good old days [I remember...] one could get away with building "cracker guns" in school metalworking classes. You have access to acetelyne yes? use your imagination man!

Sancho wrote in post #5980741
ok, serious photography question but I'll put it here for #@&*'s and giggles.

struggling to understand flash sync on my 40D. i know what it is and how it works basically. What I don't get is how it gets its speed. The manual says my 40D has a max flash sync speed of 1/250. I don't think I have ever got more than 1/200 and even when I get 1/200 sometimes it has the start of the unsyncing (black vignette along the bottom) Now I really want to get this sorted and know what to expect as a huge amount of my photography as most of you know is using off camera flash.

Why can't I get 1/250 constantly like the manual says?
Why sometimes to I have to drop to 1/160 to avoid syncing artifacts? (this is rare but does happen and has ruined a few good photos as its only noticeable on pc screen)

Chocolate fish and mucho appreciation to the best answer

need to understand what flash & how you're using it before coming up with an answer. Pictures with exif would be good too.

Chocolate fish already removed from #1 son's bathwater (ewww!) so we don't really need more, but thanks for the thought...

Raikyn wrote in post #5980785
Well I have absolutely no knowledge of flash, and especially off camera flash.
So like most people on this forum I'm over qualified to answer, so here goes.

It's either a timing issue or the portable flux capacitor that will be causing trouble. I suggest you buy the newest Canon flash and your troubles will disappear, but if they don't it's user error and you are an idiot and have to RTFM.

hows the new tool...

Mark Vuleta wrote in post #5980874
Bl**dy cats, anyone got a shot gun?

yep...