 Sandra Wortmann |
flash recyclinng I have a canon 5800 flash and a battery pack hocked up to it. I shoot a lot of sports and whated to be able to fire and have my flash keep up. I used it first last night a the football game in town and it was about 15 degrees outside. It still took it about 2-3 seconds to recycle. Is it because it was so cold out, I have the battery pack in my coat pocket. You miss so many shoots if you can not fire it quickly.
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Sandra Wortmann |
Soory, that is a 580 canon flash.
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Jon Close |
Cold would be my guess. Did you keep the external battery pack warm (inside your coat)?
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W. |
Even under ideal conditions I doubt recycling will ever be faster than 1 shot per 1.5 sec.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Also look at what is the recycle time at full power, and what power did you have it on. Plus iso and apeture.
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Mark Feldstein |
Yeah, Sandra, you need to look at some product specs for the answer here. There are generally 3 factors that control recycling time: The power draw (i.e. the power setting of the flash head); the output of the battery pack or power supply (and the type of battery pack it is along with how well charged it is at the moment); and the temperature of the strobe or supplemental pack. I'm not familiar with your Canon strobe, but for example, if I use a fully charged Quantum Turbo (wet battery) and a Vivitar 285 High Voltage flash at full power at room temperature, the recycling time is really negligible, like less than a full second. The Quantum batteries seem to do that pretty consistently unless you're really getting down to the bottom of the charge barrel. Oh, one thing you could try when shooting an event like that, depending on your status, if your flash has an AC power cord and you had a place to plug in, (look under the seats in the bleechers) you'd probably cut that recycling time in half, again, maybe more depending on your output and as Greg said, your camera settings. Take it light. ;>)
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