You need flash and the rapid fire (instead of single frame)
to see what instant you get when you actually press shutter release
At 05:06 PM 1/19/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>OK, here's a question (or three or four) that's been on my mind for a while.
>I'd like to capture a macro shot of some very fast event -- let's say a
>fragile glass object hitting the ground, or a water droplet hitting the
>surface of a liquid in a bowl. I can set up some sort of photoelectric
>sensor that sees the object when it comes past, then I can use that sensor
>to trip the electronic shutter in my camera body (an MZ-50). Does anyone
>know how much time passes between the instant I close the electrical
>contacts at the body, and the instant the shutter curtain actually opens?
>I'm guessing perhaps a few milliseconds? Anybody had the opportunity to
>measure this? Do different MZ/ZX bodies have different characteristic delay
>times, or all they all pretty much the same? Finally, is there much jitter
>-- that is, will the delay time be five milliseconds today, and eight
>milliseconds tomorrow, or is it pretty precise from day to day, month to
>month, etc.?
>
>Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this.
>
>Bill Peifer
>Rochester, NY
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