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Olaf wrote:
> >I'm not quite certain what you mean with "heat lightning", but I suppose
> >that you're referring to the phenomenon where after every few days of
heat
> >you have some thundershowers, that cause the temperature to go down a bit
> >again, only to heat up over the course of a few days, to repeat itself
all
> >summer long? If so, then that sounds like something we also have over
here.
Barry wrote back:
> Heat lightning is lightning that stays in the clouds, and results in
> colored flashes of light instead of distinct bolts coming to the
> ground.
Is this the same lightnening I used to see seemed to make no thunder (at
least that I could hear) and was off in the distance?
> >City shots can perfectly be shot in Auto mode, but for the lightning one
> >really (IMO) should go with bulb exposures; Auto mode tends to keep the
> >shutter way too long open causing the lightning to be washed away by
other
> >light.
>
> Not if you underexpose.
I've never tried the underexpose idea but have the setting on bulb. I'll
have to try that one evening.
> >>Anyone else ever do this? Did I make a serious mis-calculation? Any
> >>ideas on what could have happened?
Not yet! Anyone else have a thought?
Gregg
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