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[OM] Re: A flash and meter lesson learned

Subject: [OM] Re: A flash and meter lesson learned
From: "Andreas Pirner" <AndreasPirner@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:28:49 +0100
Joel Wilcox wrote:
> Thanks Chuck. I had read somewhere that electronic flash is about
> 1/40,000 sec.  I never would have discovered what you came up with.

1/40,000 sec. is pretty much the shortest flash 
duration that occurs when the flash is very close, 
lens wide open and not diffusion of any kind. 
I guess it is determined by regulating/measuring 
electronics, the behaviour of the flash tube itself 
(it 'burns' in a curve too, pretty steep flanks, 
but still a curve, kinda tailing off). 
The longest flash duration is full power of a 
single head high power studio flash. That may 
comes close to 1/200 sec. (as already stated 
in another post).

Andreas

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