Paul C. Buff, Inc. Technical Forum

Hello All,

I have two Einsteins, two white PLM 86's, two VML's, a CC, and the required stands and am looking into using this setup to shoot some cool stop action photos. Because the Spring has been terrible up here, I haven't been able to play with these that much. If you have a similar setup, how are you using yours for stop action? I was thinking of trying to get the flash to fire 8 times per sec under low power to freeze the swing of a baseball player at night in different positions. This would be a staged setup and not during a game. My plans were for a low key image with multiple exposures. I was thinking on doing the same thing for a pitcher going threw his motions as well. My goal is to do something that the MWC's can't do. MWC's is short for mom's with cameras! I'm looking for a special setup that I can take to tournaments to shoot players during the games. Sort of like posed action photography. In the past I would shoot 7,000 pictures and post them online. This was hard on the cameras and me as well! I'm looking to now focus only on parents who want pictures of their players.

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Are you looking to get them in one frame or seperate frames?

If your camera will shoot at 8fps, just set the Einstein at about 40WS and you can shoot as many 8fps frames as your like. But if you want multiple exposures superimposed in a single frame you'll have to use PW MultiMax. I believe it can be set to fire a flash (like Einstein) multiple times at a specific rate in one frame.

Here's a couple of links:

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_ ... 0053-10715
http://vimeo.com/11552592

As well, many speedlites (I know Nikon and Sony do, likely Canon) will also allow you to pop a number of frames per second. You cna then utilize the optical slave of the Einstein to trigger from these pops. If you have a MultiMax, it may be easier to use it, if not you may be able to use your flash.