I was wondering if there was anyone out there that might know of the best way/setting to try and capture lightening with this camera? I know, I will try to look it up at some point, but I would just like to talk with someone that has actually done it with this particular camera because they have a working understanding of it and aren't as dead as a book or screen is.


Been some really awesome cloud to cloud lightening past couple of days. About to go outside and watch it some more. It kinda makes me wonder about what going on exactly with that when I think of this Cherenkov radiation with electrons moving faster than light in water. Is that is what is happening in clouds ... water vapor, the charge of electrons transfers from one cloud to another then the light or energy follows the path? Maybe its more like a domino kind of effect. /shrug.

Always something to learn.

Accidently?

Ask Buttershug, that's what he does.

Well, when it's going off like crazy, which this cloud to cloud stuff tends to do, the chances are highly probably, I will get lucky if I try. I think I just realized something crucial though. I have the iso set at 800, but I left continuous shooting on, I am thinking I perhaps should set it to single shot because the continuous shooting ... unless I can change the speed of it ... which I think I can, is not set for that iso speed. I don't know. I need to read the damn book I guess. UG. See that's my one problem ... I have too many interests and spread myself to thin, all the stuff I enjoy reading about and doing ... then all the stuff I am required to do, for the stuff I like doing. I have enough crap to read for class ... ahhh.

I'm going to watch a sick movie apparently though, for an essay in my sociology class, History of Violence. I got an earshot from a kid that said he put in with his parents ... lol ... and said there was some pretty hardcore stuff in it. I bet that was awkward. See, scatter brained. I'm always forgetting some-thing because I am always trying to figure some-thing out. Don't let this happen to you.

I havn't photographed lightning yet.

There are three basic ways I know of.
click click click and hope to get lucky.

I saw an article on lightning in a Canadian Geographic magazine. The way they got their shots was with a light senitive trigger for their camera. So when there was a bolt of lightning it would trigger the camera. As far as I know to get a setup to work this way costs mucho dinaro(sp)

the other way is with neutral density filters. You use them to increase exposure time long enough that you will capture lightning. You will also need a tripod. and will want a remote release because you will probably have to use a bulb exposure.

You might want to take a photo without the ND filters and use a program to combine it with the shots you get of the lightning.

There can be a fine line between enhancing and faking but I would think this would fall into enhancing.

danke

Meem: I'm not a photographer(except for some amateur photos of my children), but I used to sell photography for a living. I used to double-matte different types of nature photos and put a corresponding Bible verse in a text box below each photo. Anyhow, back in those days, I used to purchase some lightning photographs from a guy who does that for a living out in Australia. Although it's not the same type of camera that you're referring to, he does give some tips on photographing lightning at the following link:

http://www.lightningphotography.com/tips.html

Hope it helps.