Originally posted by kenyee And they max out at 1/500 sec (because they're relatively crude mechanical mechanisms compared to focal plane shutters :-)
you have some reading to catch up on. The leaf shutters in the Schneider lenses made for phase one digital medium format camera, these leaf shutters can obtain synch speeds of 1/1,600th*. And leaf shutters aren't what I would call crude at all, especially since they can accomplish what an overcomplicated device like the FP shutter cannot, being able to synch at all speeds. Packard shutters are crude.
*which happens to be the fastest synch speed I can get out of my LX5 - though at those speeds reliability with my wireless trigger from Elinchrom isn't all it could be,But I hear they have remedied that.
Originally posted by 1banger You don't get it, I want to freeze faster motion than a fan blade. Try stopping a water drop spash at 1/30th, not to mention unwanted ambient.
look, learn to control lighting to get the best results instead of expecting a camera to do all the thinking for you. I think you need to alter your approach to this problem, plenty of people have found a ways around things like this using hardware with more limitations than your average sub $1,000 DSLR. I can stop a drop of water with a sync speed of 1/60th without issue. I could even pull it off at 1/8th if I wanted to, if you knew how to control light and how how flashes stop motion you could have saved a lot of our time on these forums by attacking the problem, not by complaining ineffectually about something that in the end, has next to no effect on what you are trying to accomplish.
I did this with just one AF540 FGZ at 1/16th power with a synch speed of 1/60th:
Last edited by Digitalis; 01-28-2011 at 04:40 PM.