mik drop 1936
Harold E. Edgerton


Specks SP250 F16 180mm macro lens 3 Studio Flashes Back one set at F22 Front one at F13 Bottom one set at F14 Left one set with diffuser box at F16

Here is an example of high speed food photography which is extremely difficult to get precise as eye should be open to see the strawberry in the air and the other eye must look through the view finder in order to release the shutter at the correct time.Although 250 is the mark off point for digital flash sync speed and will get a clear image with no blurs I felt sometimes that 250 could get some blurred motion in very small objects and especially in dark areas. Also sometimes there is a fraction of a lag time. The way to get around this is either to use a medium format camera which offers a faster sync speed due to the shutter leaf system offered by Haselblad and Mamiya cameras which offer a speed of 400 and 500. One can clearly differentiate between digital 250 and the medium format 400 and 500 and obviously the latter is a much higher quality and generally much sharper.