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PHOTOGRAPHERS. Why do you have the camera you have?
Title sums it up. I have a shitty Rebel but it is all I could afford. I love the versatility of the SLR platform. Despite it's shittyness, you can do a lot with it. How about y'all?
Oh I had banding, but if you know how to position the rider, light, and band the right way you can get away with it. I'm still stuck at 1/200 with cybersyncs...
I haven't shot much NIght Photography, But when you guys do, do you just have one of the industrial halogen super bright lights? Cause my Speedlite blinds the skiers... Which is shitty.
Ideally, 3 different sources of light. Though I usually end up with two due to time/space constraints. Usually it's my Paul Buff Einstein as a main light, with a Yongnuo YN560 Speedlight as a fill, then another YN560 or Sunpak 555 as a rim/backlight. If i'm in a good location, I'll light up the scene more with a 4th light (sometimes gelled)
Not sure how big of difference it is with Canon but with my Nikons I can shoot Alienbee B1600's ( best for hypersynce due to longer flash duration, its backwards and always confuses me) and I can get all the way up to 1/8000s (obviously with loss of light due to cutting off the flash more and more) with no banding without even changing my hypersync settings on flex TT5's
Fuck everything digital and with settings, this is the purest form of photography.
A 35mm F4.0 lens and a shutter button transferring an image on 35mm film.
Nikon D7000 - best bang-for-buck image quality in a DSLR.
Olympus PEN E-P3 - needed a compact camera, and wanted compact tele lenses with it for skiing. This rules out the NEX, EOS-M, X, etc... Between Olympus and a Nikon 1, Olympus wins for me.
I use the AB1600 (Fill) also with my Ranger (Key) but the reason I need a higher sync speed Jamie is so I can use a larger aperture so I am not stuck with f/8 all the time. Plus if there is enough light for the riders to see there is also enough light to cause ghosting at night especially with a slow shutter like 1/250.