[Leo.G (Leo)]

Stunning image Peter!


Are you using an intervalometer/remote trigger or are you using a lightning trigger device?


I was reading just the other day many of the lightning triggers are not good. I've used an intervalometer for many years to capture hundreds of lightning shots in the past but have some components in a plastic bag somewhere I put together to build my own lightning trigger and just never got to it.

I also saw mention the Nikon Z9 can record pre-shutter activity so press the shutter when you see the flash and still have previous x time period captured. My sons LG phone had that precise function some years ago and we captured the identical lightning strike, him with his phone and me with my old Nikon D80 on a tripod at the side of the road. The shots are identical other than I used a higher level of zoom.

We had something like that last Sunday (Jan 12) which saw me come up with a quick way to mount a ball-head on the toilet window-sill (ONLY window with quick removable fly screen and clear view of eastern skies unimpeded by neighbouring trees) out of the rain but I lost my bits after sitting it all down somewhere with mount screw already set up. I found it an hour after the storm had passed.
I have spent a couple of hours in there Wednesday night but the lightning was so sporadic and nothing like Sunday's, I've never seen lightning like Sunday's.

Maybe tonight.......