paulie_smith1 Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 <p>I am looking at lightning triggers or sensors for the camera. The type that sense the flash and quickly trip the shutter so I get a daylight photo before the flash disappears. My reaction time is way too slow to do this successfully for anything but the double hits.<br> One I saw also works for small object setups and that would be a real plus.<br> Anyone with field experience using various types of these electronc marvels is welcome to give their advice. I have a bit til lightning season as I have to wait for Winter to stop first - tho we do get lightning storms with snow at times.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulie_smith1 Posted January 30, 2012 Author Share Posted January 30, 2012 <p><a href="http://www.lightningtrigger.com/Features.html#features">http://www.lightningtrigger.com/Features.html#features</a><br> This is a link for one of the units I am looking at.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klsphoto Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 <p>I use this product on my Canons (40D & 50D) and highly recommend it for daytime lightning photography. You can see my images in my "lightning" gallery. <br> First of all, be safe. Study the patter of storms in your area and position yourself outside of the path of the storm. <br> This company modifies an OEM remote shutter release for your camera model & as a bonus, include the other half so you can use it as a regular shutter release cable, too. <br> Use aperture priority, somewhere around 11 or 13, whatever is the sweet spot for your lens, manual focus set on infinity, tripod, ISO for light conditions. Experiment for best results.<br> If you have other questions, drop me an e-mail. Good shooting, Karen </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Doo Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 <p>Very interesting. Makes me want to look into it well. </p> <p>The Lightning Trigger enjoys good reviews. There are also a few others from <a href="http://www.aeophoto.com/">http://www.aeophoto.com/</a>. Wonder how they compare?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven_f1 Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 <p>Most lightning strikes are so short even the camera would not be able to respond to the trigger fast enough to catch the first strike. Even the manual at the link Mary provided states:</p> <blockquote> <p>The device triggers on the first bolt it detects. Your camera shutter mechanism is not fast enough to catch that first bolt, but fortunately, most bolts are followed by many more. Thus, you want to have the camera shutter open for a fairly long time to capture those subsequent bolts (we’ve used 10 seconds with good results).</p> </blockquote> <p>Most lightning pictures you see are taken with conventional cameras without any fancy trigger. Most photographer simply set the slowest shutter speed they can get, trip the shutter and hope a lightning strike occurs while the shutter is open. Sometimes they get nothing, sometime one, and sometimes many. All a lightning trigger does is reduce the number of nothing shots (an obvious advantage when using film but not so much with digital). Obviously a tripod is required even if you have a lightning trigger.</p> <blockquote> <p>First of all, be safe. Study the patter of storms in your area and position yourself outside of the path of the storm.</p> </blockquote> <p>Not good advice. Lightning has been observed traveling sideways for tens of miles before touching ground. Sometimes it never does reach the ground (called cloud to cloud lightning). People still get killed even though they think they are far enough away to be safe.<br> <br /> The only full proof safe place to be is in your car. The rubber of the tires offers no protection, but the metal of the car will safely carry the energy around you until it gets to the bottom of the car body where it safely jumps to ground.</p> <p>Role the window half way down, clamp the camera to the window (making sure no part of it touches metal) and trigger the shutter.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony_riddle Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 <p>I have been looking for a lightning trigger and found the websites given below. Could you please let us know if anybody purchased one of them?<br /><br />www.pmgadgets.net<br> <br />www.nerotrigger.com</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony_riddle Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 <p>Sorry I forgot to give the links.<br> I have been looking for a lightning trigger and found the websites given below. Could you please let us know if anybody purchased one of them?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.pmgadgets.net/">www.pmgadgets.net</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nerotrigger.com">www.nerotrigger.com</a></p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg_campbell1 Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 <p>There are a few partial reviews of the PM trigger at http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?26083-PatchMaster-Lightning-Trigger/page6 It looks like the unit works quite well.<br> The fellow selling them seems helpful and willing to ask questions. </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Doo Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 <p>Read good reviews. Just ordered the <a href="http://www.pmgadgets.net/product_info.php?cPath=41_43&products_id=67"><strong>3-in-1 PatchMaster </strong></a>. There is a sound trigger too that looks very intersting.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertbody Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 <p>How about some lightning shot examples? A lightning sensor I would like would need to be framing based... my tool has been brute force, fail 100 times, but get some too. <br> <img src="http://www.robertbody.com/arizona11/images/2011-09-08-sedona-lightning-93457.jpg" alt="" /></p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg_campbell1 Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 <p>Here's some inspiration :)<br> http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?24353-Your-Best-Lightning-Shot-to-date</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Doo Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 <p>Aww.. great shots!</p> <p>Received the "PatchMaster 3in1" a few days ago. Not sure when there will be an opportunity to use it though. But I will definitely take it with me on photo trips.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Doo Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 <p>Aww.. great shots!</p> <p>Received the "PatchMaster 3in1" a few days ago. Not sure when there will be an opportunity to use it though. But I will definitely take it with me on photo trips.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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