Not a bit surprising. I've owned very few cameras that sync above 1/60. Even the Nikon F2 only syncs about 1/90 for X flashes, and I guarantee you it does atrociously slow sync speeds for M and F.
Not a bit surprising. I've owned very few cameras that sync above 1/60. Even the Nikon F2 only syncs about 1/90 for X flashes, and I guarantee you it does atrociously slow sync speeds for M and F.This surprised me so I looked up the Spottie's highest flash sync speed. 1/60. Yikes! Copal Square shutters sync at speeds up to 1/125. Some newer 35mm SLRs' shutters sync at up to 1/250. Are there faster ones? Name names, please, and give numbers.
I mean, yeah, I own the original Copal Square camera, the Mamiya/Nikon Nikkorex F, as well as its spiritual successor the Nikkormat FTn. I've also seen one of the very first electronic Copal Squares in the Yashica TL Electro X and a bad Eastern Bloc copy of a mechanical metal blind shutter in the Praktica TL3 (viscerally unpleasant to use.)The suggested sync speed for flash bulbs is 1/30 second or slower.
At some point in time FPS in 35mm cameras changed from horizontal travel to verticle travel alowing for faster sync times due to the shorter distance the shutter has to travel. To increase to higher speeds the mechanics have improved allowing faster shutter curtain travel times. Newer curtains are segmented and fold up like a window blind while older curtains rolled up like a shade.
Few of my cameras aside from the two Nikons with Gopal Squares can really do controllable daylight flash fill without sacrificing a lot of flash power by using slow film or ND filters.
A propos of that, I was a bit more comfortable doing flower and insect photography outdoors with KM and electronic flash after my Nik'mat FTN was stolen and I replaced it with an FM2N. Ghost images were suddenly one stop smaller a problem. One of the reasons I've dithered so long about getting a digital SLR is that few have low enough ISO settings. Some Nikons now go to ISO 32 and I guess that's good enough even though when I was shooting KM I sometimes found myself wanting ISO 10. As you said, ND filters ...
I assumed it meant Kodachrome but I'm curious too.KM ???
How quickly we forget. Kodachrome 25.KM ???
I wouldn't become a photographer until six or seven years after the last KM lab shut down! Some of my baby pictures were on KM but that's the extent to which I have ever encountered it!How quickly we forget. Kodachrome 25.
Some newer 35mm SLRs' shutters sync at up to 1/250. Are there faster ones? Name names, please, and give numbers.
How quickly we forget. Kodachrome 25.
Mmmmm, Yes, I see. I never cared for Kodachrome....always thought it looked like shit....never understood all the fuss...I know, Heresy!
I'm sure a pitch fork wielding mob will come to my house and crucify me later this evening!
I could be mistaken but I think that some Olympus SLRs used that trick before Nikon's version came to market.The Nikon F6 (along with many Nikon digital cameras) supports Nikon's Auto FP High-Speed Sync feature with compatible dedicated flashes. The feature works up to the maximum speed of the camera's mechanical shutter. You could argue that it's "cheating" - the flash emits a series of pulses to follow the moving slit across the entire curtain travel.
https://www.nikonimgsupport.com/eu/BV_article?articleNo=000004909&configured=1&lang=en_GB
Right. Some never had the opportunity to learn.I wouldn't become a photographer until six or seven years after the last KM lab shut down! Some of my baby pictures were on KM but that's the extent to which I have ever encountered it!
I could be mistaken but I think that some Olympus SLRs used that trick before Nikon's version came to market.
I could be mistaken but I think that some Olympus SLRs used that trick before Nikon's version came to market.
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