Green Flash

NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
edited September 23, 2007 in Other Cool Shots
I can't believe it!
Not only I saw the green flash, I also captured it!
SoCal got an early rain yesterday, and due to this - highly unusual - circumstance the air got reeeeealy clear and we got nice puffy clouds instead of a clear sky on top and a haze over the horizon. For the first time in my life I could see an ocean edge right from our place (which is about 70 miles afar:-).
But that's not the best part.
Given the fact I got my 40D yesterday, I was keen to take it for a spin. So I went out around the sunset hoping to get some purple. And lo and behold, not only I got that, but I managed to see - and even to capture - the famous green flash! I never hoped to see it in my life, yet here I was, snapping frame after frame with my brand new 40D, observing this rather rare phenomenon.

And best of it, I got a picture to prove me right:

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That tall structure on the foreground is a federal building in Oxnard, about 30 miles away.

Taken handheld, with Canon 40D and EF 70-200/2.8 IS USM
"May the f/stop be with you!"

Comments

  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited September 23, 2007
    Cool!
    Sid.
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited September 23, 2007
    wxwax wrote:
    Cool!
    Thanks, Sid! thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • SloYerRollSloYerRoll Registered Users Posts: 2,788 Major grins
    edited September 23, 2007
    Sweet Nik!
    I was browsing around in google for a bit after reading this. This is a pretty large green flash to boot!

    -Jon
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited September 23, 2007
    SloYerRoll wrote:
    Sweet Nik!
    I was browsing around in google for a bit after reading this. This is a pretty large green flash to boot!

    -Jon
    Thanks, Jon! That's my first ever, so I wouldn't know mwink.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,967 moderator
    edited September 23, 2007
    Very cool, Nik. thumb.gif
    My Pics
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited September 23, 2007
    rsinmadrid wrote:
    Very cool, Nik. thumb.gif
    Merci, Richard! mwink.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • z_28z_28 Registered Users Posts: 956 Major grins
    edited September 23, 2007
    I was hoping to see that since several years :cry
    Great catch Nikolai :cry:cry:cry

    Can I copy you with 30D or it's possible with 40D ONLY ???
    D300, D70s, 10.5/2.8, 17-55/2.8, 24-85/2.8-4, 50/1.4, 70-200VR, 70-300VR, 60/2.8, SB800, SB80DX, SD8A, MB-D10 ...
    XTi, G9, 16-35/2.8L, 100-300USM, 70-200/4L, 19-35, 580EX II, CP-E3, 500/8 ...
    DSC-R1, HFL-F32X ... ; AG-DVX100B and stuff ... (I like this 10 years old signature :^)
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,967 moderator
    edited September 23, 2007
    z_28 wrote:
    Can I copy you with 30D or it's possible with 40D ONLY ???
    Sorry, special function Fn38 (Green Flash) is only available on the 40D. rolleyes1.gif

    Seriously, it's really a matter of atmospheric conditions, not the camera.

    Cheers,
    My Pics
  • z_28z_28 Registered Users Posts: 956 Major grins
    edited September 23, 2007
    I know eek7.gif
    After that I have 30D for big rush sale rolleyes1.gif
    D300, D70s, 10.5/2.8, 17-55/2.8, 24-85/2.8-4, 50/1.4, 70-200VR, 70-300VR, 60/2.8, SB800, SB80DX, SD8A, MB-D10 ...
    XTi, G9, 16-35/2.8L, 100-300USM, 70-200/4L, 19-35, 580EX II, CP-E3, 500/8 ...
    DSC-R1, HFL-F32X ... ; AG-DVX100B and stuff ... (I like this 10 years old signature :^)
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited September 23, 2007
    rsinmadrid wrote:
    Sorry, special function Fn38 (Green Flash) is only available on the 40D. rolleyes1.gif
    lol rolleyes1.gif
    too funny :-)
    rsinmadrid wrote:
    Seriously, it's really a matter of atmospheric conditions, not the camera.
    Cheers,
    Totally. Well, long lens and 10mp help a bit too. This is 100% crop, on 30D the image would have been 20% smaller...deal.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited September 23, 2007
    z_28 wrote:
    I know eek7.gif
    After that I have 30D for big rush sale rolleyes1.gif
    Yeah, that's what I'm doing now...deal.gifne_nau.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • ZanottiZanotti Registered Users Posts: 1,411 Major grins
    edited September 23, 2007
    I too googled green flash to learn more. I had not seen this before.

    http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/


    Lots of information here, your shot is one of the best - you should submit it to the author for his research.

    Great, once and a lifetime, shot. I am sure I wont look at sunsets quite the same again.

    Z
    It is the purpose of life that each of us strives to become actually what he is potentially. We should be obsessed with stretching towards that goal through the world we inhabit.
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited September 23, 2007
    Zanotti wrote:
    I too googled green flash to learn more. I had not seen this before.

    http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/


    Lots of information here, your shot is one of the best - you should submit it to the author for his research.

    Great, once and a lifetime, shot. I am sure I wont look at sunsets quite the same again.

    Z

    Thanks, Z, I may let him know :-)
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
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