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Any thoughts on this problem?
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Hi all,
The shot below taken with a 5d, f6.3, 1/125, iso200, or there abouts.
Using cheap but seemingly reliable radio triggers, 2 light setup, 45 off center to left and same right.
I have shots where one side did not re-cycle fast enough and they dont look anything like this.
I was holding verticle.Is this my shutter in the shot? at 1/125???
I’ve searched google and any pic with visible shutter has almost 100% blackout where shutter is visible, or a mere darkening at the bottom where shutter is creeping in. Ant these are all at much higher shutter speeds.
I’m puzzled.
Any thoughts?
[attachment=0:1b5axbn1]image.jpg[/attachment:1b5axbn1]no to sure what you trying to say, the only thing i possible could remark is some vignette, shutter would only show if you shot higher then the sync speed of your camera, most can shot upwards to 250, some have high speed sync so you can shot beyond 250.
Max sync speed on a 5D is 1/200th s – so you should be OK if everything is working properly.
You need to test the individual parts to see if.where the problem is.
I would start by putting the flash on the camera. Point at a bare wall, and take a series of exposures at different shutter speeds.
If you see the problem at slower speeds than 1/200 – then you may have a problem with your shutter.I suppose it could be a dodgy flash – but that seems unlikely for your symptoms.
If all is OK on the first test, repeat, but remove the flash from the camera and use the triggers to trigger it – once again at different shutter speeds.
The results should give you an idea if there’s a problem with any of the hardware.
Thanks for the reply guys. I will try as suggested.
I really do suspect the shutter, but just dont want to admit it.
Its a second hand camera I only bought a month ago.
Will be hard to get money back at this stage.just a thought, but it could be pcb assembly, basically a circuit board, mine went on my 40D but first thought is was the shutter, sent to uk to get fixed as there is no one in ireland to fix it. €250 it think it came to, but they refurbished it, came back like new.
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