You can also look at it as a simile to the flash putting out a dollar's
worth of energy, just a nickel at a time during the total flash
duration. It's still a dollar, even if it's in the form of 20 nickels.
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Mike wrote:
>
> I said:
>
> > >I occurred to me that because of the longer duration of the flash in
> > >Super FP mode that it must really use up the batteries. Does anyone
> > have
> > >any first hand experience with this. I haven't used it in FP mode
> > enough
> > >to know. Should I carry an extra set of batteries to my normal backup
> > >set?
>
> Winsor Crosby wrote:
>
> > I thought the batteries were just there to charge the capacitor,=20
> > which would be the same regardless of mode.
>
> Yes but if the flash is putting out x amount of light over a longer
> period of time doesn't that equal more total energy expended? Maybe I'm
> confusing the total flash dump with the rate of burn. and maybe this
> isn't a noticeable issue with battery usage. Please correct me.
>
> Mike
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