dominicbyrne

<p>Hi</p>

<p>I will be picking up a Hasselblad 500C shortly which belonged to my father.<br>

It is clearly labelled as a 500C but the serial number starts UV which I believe dates it to 1971 and the lens number is also from 1971.<br>

Will that mean the screen is likely to be the CM type and easily removed or is it a 50/50 chance?</p>

<p>Thanks for any advise offered</p>

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<p>And also I used to shoot alot of bmx freestyle riding at night at the local skate park and you need more then 1/250 shutter/flash sync to freeze fast action tricks like Bar spins,tailwhips and so on</p>

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<p>Bill I find that confusing - the duration of the flash burst is what will freeze the action not the shutter speed.</p>

<p>The interval timer needs to be set at 33 secs (31 and 32 don't seem to work).<br>

The number of intervals is basically the number of pictures you want to take (240 in my case) x 1<br>

Thanks for your help</p>

<p>Thanks for the replies - not sure I am much the wiser really though as there seems to be so much confusion with the terminology.<br>

Does the camera really need the 2-3 seconds of "thinking time" and writing time? My concern with getting beyond 1 sec is that I may start getting breaks in the trails. If I get a chance I will experiment tonight before I go and see how it works.<br>

From what I have read the "Select Intervals" means number of intervals and the number of shots relates to how many images I want to take at each interval. I get the impression that this function is more geared towards time laspse photography over longer period and with a decent interval between shots.<br>

Any definitive help would stll be much appreciated - thank you</p>

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Hi

I am hoping to get out and shoot some star trail photography in the desert here in Dubai. Because of the very high

temperatures and humidity I am probably limited to exposures of around 30 seconds maximum which means I need

to take multiple exposures and use a stacking programme to create the image. Can anyone confirm whether the

interval I need to set should be 1 second or 31 seconds? (Basically I need to keep the period between exposures to

the minimum to avoid any broken trails).

Assuming that I want to create an image from a 2 hour exposure do I set the intervals at 240 and the No. of shots as

1?

Any help or advice would be very gratefully received.

Thanks

<p>Wayne - thank you.<br>

I was looking at the flash compensation rather than the menu where I set it up as a commander.<br>

All sorted and thank you all so much<br>

Dominic</p>

<p>Having checked the flash settings using the camera menu it appears that I only get 3 stops to play with - there doesn't appear to be the option to reduce the power to 1/64th or 1/128th.<br>

Is that correct or am I missing something?<br /><br />Thanks</p>

<p>Hi</p>

<p>This may be a stupid question but it's bugging me so hopefully someone can point me in the right direction!<br>

I am using an SB800 flash and use it remotely with the pop up flash on my D200 acting as the trigger.<br>

Is it possible to adjust the power of the flash as once it's in remote mode the only control that seems to work on the flash unit is the zoom function and I cannot access the mode to adjust the power?<br>

If I use the on camera flash +/- button it seems to have some effect of power but the range is pretty limited and it doesn't give me the options I would get if I used the flash in manual mode.<br>

What am I doing wrong? I guess I am missing something obvious!</p>

<p>Many thanks</p>

<p>Wow - thank you all for your responses - there's some really useful advice there.<br>

The intention is to do it with two of us so that should hopefully make things a bit easier!<br>

I will keep you posted of developments and will post some pictures as and when things develop.<br>

Thanks again for taking the time to help out.</p>

<p>Dominic</p>

<p>Hi</p>

<p>Myself and a friend have an opportunity to do some pet photography to help out a pet-sitting business.<br>

I have no real experience of this kind of thing and would like advice on how to approach the sessions.<br>

My equipment will be a D200 with a choice of 105mm, 10-20mm and 18-200mm lenses with one SB-800 flash gun.<br>

Where do I start??<br>

All help and advice appreciated </p>

<p>Thanks</p>