Guy Mancuso
Administrator, Instructor
Okay this has two meanings and reality is this it was hotter than a baking oven last night 119 air temp and working on asphalt. This morning a pleasant 109 but the real heat is speed. Can the MF take hard fast paced work under a situation that is one of a emergency style. No time to stop , no time to reload and if it fails your history. Situation dirty bomb goes off emergency team to rescue than as you see some of the image here in real time . This is a mockup situation but when the whistle starts you gotta go and better hope everything can keep up. I am shooting a Old AFD Mamiya which is a piece of garbage but is a loaner until the new Mamiya/Phase One body comes hopefully soon. So this thing is slow. Now the P25 Plus is 1.5 second back, and it is truly hot as hell here . The back did become warm but not hot to the touch. Given the temp and as rapid fire as i could it did very well. As far as the camera there were a couple times i was ready and it was not. I don't expect this very often with jobs but if you have a serious need to shoot than maybe a faster back is better. Even the P30 plus at 1.25 seconds sounds not much faster but reality it is. Something to think about . I know the P21 is .8 seconds and some of the other backs are pretty quick also.
But the good news it never failed even one shot and this was a pressure cooker with hard light and blazing heat. I used a SB 800 and put the camera on TV mode. Set the shutter at 125 th and pretty much shot the flash on manual outside than flipped camera to manual inside and flash to A mode on flash. 2 seconds to switch things around and went very smooth.
i know someone will ask too much for a PR gig. BS i say i worked for this client for many years they make house size prints from my stuff. Tis is what led to MF. Besides the files will knock them out and at the end of the day you still need to impress your clients. Hopefully after 800 images it will have some that do. LOL
Here is just some random takes but under cooker pressure moments
But the good news it never failed even one shot and this was a pressure cooker with hard light and blazing heat. I used a SB 800 and put the camera on TV mode. Set the shutter at 125 th and pretty much shot the flash on manual outside than flipped camera to manual inside and flash to A mode on flash. 2 seconds to switch things around and went very smooth.
i know someone will ask too much for a PR gig. BS i say i worked for this client for many years they make house size prints from my stuff. Tis is what led to MF. Besides the files will knock them out and at the end of the day you still need to impress your clients. Hopefully after 800 images it will have some that do. LOL
Here is just some random takes but under cooker pressure moments