Description

Product Description:

The Lightning Bug is based upon the science of lightning. There are two components of lightning; the bright white flash everyone wants to capture and the unseen infrared light that always precedes it. The Lightning Bug uses a high-speed photodiode sensor optimized to the infrared burst that occurs just before a lightning strike. This infrared light comes from the vaporization of air and particles in the air. The Lightning Bug acts as a lookout for your camera, watching for a change in infrared light. When a significant change of infra-red light over a very short period of time is detected, it directs the camera shutter to trip and capture the lightning in action.

Being photographers first and an engineering company second, we give you the ability to adjust the sensitivity of the Lightning Bug. The exclusive sensitivity adjustment circuitry allows the photographer to customize the Lightning Bug's operation to any shooting situation. This gives the photographer full control over when to take the picture. If you only wanted to capture the brightest and boldest lightning bolts you would decrease the sensitivity. Or if you wanted to capture lightning over the city or mountains from a long distance, you would increase the sensitivity. Only the Lightning Bug gives you this level of control.

While others in the field point to the simplicity of their unit's ability to automatically 'adjust' for all conditions, we are of the mindset that the user knows better than our device ever could. At MK Controls we believe that you, the photographer, should be able to make the decision about an image. That is why we include features that put you in control for less money.

We also include premium features not found in simpler lightning detectors on the market.

Mk Controls Lightning Bug Automated Shutter Release System

Price is below average

Get price

Current Price

$169.99

Average

$201.37

Min Price

$139

Max Price

$263.06

Price dynamics

16%

Description

Product Description:

We also include premium features not found in simpler lightning detectors on the market.

According to the data, price will be lower in next two weeks, so not waste your money and track better price!

Product review & video

hi I'm rich Davis and I'm with stepping-stone products we're out here in southwestern Colorado where we have some late season late October thunderstorms coming through the area we're going to set up here with the stepping-stone Lightning trigger to see if we can't capture some Lightning coming through it's actually noontime so it's quite bright and what I have here is lt4 and I've got it set on ISO 50 at this point in time normally I recommend ISO 100 its shutter speed priority mode at one fifteenth of a second and the aperture is stepping down automatically to around F twenty at this point in time I have the LT four set on the S flash mode which will pick up any of the lightning flashes whether it's enter cloud or ground flashes the storm is passing transverse to us at about 10 to 15 miles away so we're in a good safe location there's no other thunderstorms to the southwest the track t