Cool... never experienced one before in all my years on the planet!

Quite bizarre!

Any pictures?

Nope... I tried once before to get some snaps of a 'normal' lightning storm, but missed the flashes every time (and that was with an olde fashioned point and shoot film camera... can you imagine trying it with a 'it-takes-me-ages-to-focus' digital!

I must of missed that one (stuck in doors at work again )

did you see the pink sky just before the snow started again ?

[Edited on 5/1/10 by mcerd1]

It's not long stopped Robert... the sheet-lightning was illuminating the sky which created a weird effect against the snowfall!

Yep... got a few snaps - I'll upload one in a tick!

[img][/img]

you get a much better view on your side of town

(btw - it must be very pink if I can see it, I'm GR colour blind )

You need to use the 'bulb' feature on your camera (if it has one). This keeps the shutter open all the time you have your finger on the button, then closes it when you release as the lightning flashes. Alternatively, you need the luck of the gods!

I took these some years ago with a Fuji S602Z which had a "last 5 shots" feature. You could keep you finger down on the shutter and it would keep taking pictures at 5 fps into the internal buffer, then save the last 5 when you released the shutter. I guess any half decent digital SLR will have a similar feature.

My camera maybe does, but I can't remember the last time I actually read instructions for anything!

Probably not scratched the surface of it's abilities!

quote:

---

Originally posted by scootz
Image deleted by owner

---

its one of the Canon PowerShot S5** IS ones according to the pic so it should be able to do it

if you can't wait for more real lightning to practice on, head along to crystal rig the next time there is a bit of wind - last time the tempary towers fell down and 275,000 volts makes a few sparks

[Edited on 5/1/10 by mcerd1]

20.00 its snowing here, or should I say haling down and lightening...

nothing to do with me