The title basically is the question. I am shooting macro photography and I need to take a series of images and stack them. The way this is done in the field (I'm told) is to press the shutter and as the camera clicks off the frames, slowly move forward to get exposures at sequential planes within the subject. Then go home and stack the images.
Ok... that sounds doable except if I do it somewhat blindly, the camera can go faster than the flash can recharge -- which isn't surprising.
What I'm hoping for is for the camera to not take an image until the flash is ready. I have the quick flash setting off hoping that will do it but I can still get blank dark frames between the frames where the flash flashed.
It seems if I do slow speed continuous firing and 1/8th full power (as an example), the flash keeps up. But if I do high speed continuous and full power, I end up with a properly lite frame followed by about 5 dark frames with no flash, repeat. None of this is surprising. I am just hoping I can tell the camera to not take the 5 dark frames.
