Originally posted by Digitalis I own a few leaf shutter lenses for the pentax 645 and 67 systems....I wonder if it's possible to trigger them manually on the K10D
incidentally the Pentax 67 II had a x-synch speed of 1/30th
the Leica M3 has 1/50th Xsync. After fifty years of rangefinders still carrying that "abysmal" 1/30th~1/60th sync speed the year 1999 konica came out with a rangefinder that could sync at 1/125s -and you know what?...nobody gave a shit.
That's probably because by that time no one gave a shit about rangefinders because we were all using SLR cameras for our professional work. When Nikon released the FM-2 in 1982 with a sync speed faster than what Pentax is doing over a quarter of a century later, it was seen as a huge improvement for flash photographers.
I used a Pentax 6x7 for professional work for a very long time and found it to be so useless with fill flash (until I got LS lenses that would sync to 1/500) that I used reflectors and very careful location choices for outdoor wedding portraiture.
I welcomed the higher sync speed that the leaf shutter lenses gave me because it opened up more locations to me for using fill flash.
Originally posted by Digitalis like you ryan I roll my eyes when I see people getting a their pants in a knot over the sync speed...alot of those older cameras I mentioned with sync speeds below 1/180s were all considered professional cameras. And photographers used them with flash and managed to produce superb results.
I think the reason why people complain about it is because it's the only thing that is seen as inferior to the other camera manafacturers products.
just remember in the days of film, we had it much worse. Ever used solenoid shutters for 8X10 flash work?
Wake up buddy, it's not 1937 any more.
If you really want to go back to the dinosaur days of flash bulbs and unreliable shutters, that's certainly your perogative. Some of us look forwards to what we can do today, not backwards to some happier, simpler time when the sun was dimmer and fill flash was easier.
Back in the 70s when I started doing this stuff, you turned your subjects backs to the sun and shot at f/4 for a 60th with flash and let the film's lattitude take care of things for you.
Digital sensors just don't allow that sort of lassez faire attitude, they require more precise exposure than your beloved solenoid shutter and a flash bulb will provide.
Now for myself, I'm not too terribly concerned about a 1/180 second sync speed compared to a 1/250th speed, but I don't have the hubris that you (and Ryan) have to insult the intelligence of the people who do find this to be a concern.
I give them the benefit of the doubt that if it wasn't a concern for them and their work they wouldn't bring it up.
Perhaps you guys could learn a lesson from this, but somehow I doubt it.