The Aesthetics of High-Speed Flash

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SOUNDS FANCY! And boring! Bear with me.

High-speed flash has been discussed ad nauseam in any manner of photo flash guides, in addition to the riveting, emotional descriptions of this technique that you’ll find in the manual.

It’s been around for a while, and is now a fully disclosed, hashed-over, knowable camera function, as opposed to back when it was first introduced as a cool new techno wrinkle in camera work. At that point in time, getting a flash sync speed up to 1/8000th of a second was so unheard of that it sounded like some sort of photo black magic—a ritual-based menu option in which the blood of chickens ...

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