On Mon, June 22, 2009 11:24, Emily L. Ferguson wrote: > A whole minute of recycle time is useless. You need half a second > for any event incorporating people. And that's max. Immediate > recycle is nearly essential. Well; sure, yes it is. But I've never had any flash that achieved it, even when running from 510V drycell or nicad pack on my belt, or a quantum 2. I feel very lucky if I can get 5 seconds for full-power recycle. Luckily one can often use less than full power, which reduces the recycle time correspondingly. (I shot a wedding this weekend, in fact. Outdoors, in dapppled sunlight, and then with lots of the action under a shelter roof but with sunlit backgrounds showing nearly any direction I pointed the camera. I used LOTS of fill flash.) -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
