P510 - Lightning

[KueH]

Well, tried to take some video of last night's lightning with poor results. There was alot of banding when lightning flashed. I guess you need some sort of light source in the picture as foreground or something ..... Oh well, more experimenting.

Had to get inside as it started raining. By then, most of the storm had passed over.

Only couple of pictures that showed a little activity. Guess I need to scout a good proetected close location during good weather. Or get out early....









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Nikon Coolpix P510, Konica-Minolta Dimage Z3, Sony Cyber-shot DSC-S40

 

[Augustin Man]

I think it's quite remarkable you could catch not only one, but TWO lightnings with such a short minimum shutter speed camera (I don't understand why they didn't allow 15s, or even 30s on P510 )

Thank you for sharing!

Happy shooting,

Augustin

 

[MarioV]

Well done. Thats a good effort. You've made the most with what you had.

8 seconds leaves you with smaller windows of opportunities but you got a couple of good shots.

 

[KueH]

OMG, how frustrating.... lightning flashing when the shutter is closed and not when it's open.

And a strange thing....I gave up trying to capture any more lightning shots. I totalled 334 shots ? And the battery still did not give out ?

Oh well.... I did manage to capture a few "usable" shots. Nothing fantastic....I need a better sheltered location.

 

[rimshot]

At least you were able to capture a few strikes..I have NEVER been able to catch one. I think you did very well.. There are some Pros in Arizona who set out several Hasselblad film cameras on tripods and put them on bulb setting and leave them open for a couple hours..They say film does a better job capturing lightning than digital..It's a challenge, at the very least and you did well..Jimmymac

 

[KueH]

I will have to keep my Dimage Z3 for lightning shots, full manual control and shutter speed of 15s plus T setting(30s max) with about 2s processing and write time.

 

[Pietraroja]

Nice catch...!!! You must to be so patient to obtain a good frame. Lightning pictures are always so impresives.

 

[four under]

I think you did very well. Some of these photos are pretty neat. It must have been quite an intense storm for you to catch multiple bolts with 8 second exposures.

 

[KueH]

I think you did very well. Some of these photos are pretty neat. It must have been quite an intense storm for you to catch multiple bolts with 8 second exposures.

These are "single" flashes of the storm, taken as the storm passed over and was waning. What was frustrating that some really spectacular flashes happened when the camera was processing a precious shot or a split-second before activating the shutter button. The last photo is a shot of a "point of origin" shot, unfortunately out of focus somehow. Hmmm, DCN1009 is also a "point of origin".