----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom C" Subject: RE: Hummingbird help
> I don't quite understand why a flash is viewed as needed when their > wings typically beat < 100 times per second. It would seem that > shutter > speed alone would capture it (though I've shot at 1/250 before and > have > still seen motion blur in the wings). Flash fires at 1/30,000 of a second. The fastest shutter speed on a Pentax is more like 1/125 second, or whatever the flash sync speed is. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
