TPB #44 – High Speed LED Flashes

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This week’s video is about very high speed flashes and whether LED based flashes are practical at these speeds. The dominant flash in this space is the air-gap flash with it’s half microsecond flash duration it is about 100 times faster than a typical speedlite flash from Canon or Nikon. I do some calculations that try to figure out how many LEDs you would need, what kind of current you’d need to driver ...

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TPB #23 – Measuring Flash Duration

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This week I show how to measure flash duration using a light sensor and an oscilloscope. I also explain the advantages of xenon flash tubes and their downfall. Lastly I go describe a trick modern speed-lite flashes use to get their short durations.

After all this I measure the flash duration of a Canon 580 EXII and a Yongnuo 460 flash. Much to my surprise the Yongnuo flash had less than half the ...

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