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Why take only one photo when your camera will eat an entire roll in 4.5 sec? #183267 11/16/02 03:28 AM
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Often we buy exoitc camera gear and then promptly forget what some of the capabilities of it are. My Nikon F5's get used a fair amount for photographing swans during takeoff and in flight and for that I normally set the camera up to be able to bang off 8 frames/sec (which is a 36 exposure roll in 4.5 sec if you're counting).
No reason why you can't do the same thing to catch a series of a wave breaking at a lighthouse. I shot a few such bursts last Friday at South Haven. The waves weren't consistently large so there were some bursts that well, just went directly to the rectangular file without passing GO! I did get a couple of sequences though that were worth sharing. Here's one of them.









All four images were scanned and cropped identically. The technoinfo was 1/1600th sec, 500 mm f4 lens at f 5.6 using Provia 400F professional slide film. The camera for this sequence was set at 4 frames/sec so these four images represent a 1 sec window in time as a wave slammed into the end of the pier there a week ago in South Haven.

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Re: Why take only one photo when your camera will eat an entire roll in 4.5 sec? #183268 11/16/02 04:14 AM
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Very cool, Gary!

Re: Why take only one photo when your camera will eat an entire roll in 4.5 sec? #183269 11/16/02 02:03 PM
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As I just told you on AIM and an repeating for the benefit of anyone who comes here, these are very good -- as usual, Gary, but as I also told you, the waves aren't quite as high and encompassing as when we were photographing there together in September 10, 2001!


Terry (Only my mother, brothers & sisters call me Teresa) Forrest
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Beautiful pictures, Gary!! I just love it when you post your pictures - I love seeing them!! Keep them coming!

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