Green Flash

[Nikolai]

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:

http://nik.smugmug.com/photos/199094093-L.jpg

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

[wxwax]

Cool!

[Nikolai]

Cool!
Thanks, Sid! :thumb

[SloYerRoll]

Sweet Nik!
I was browsing around in google for a bit after reading this. This is a pretty large green flash to boot!

-Jon

[Nikolai]

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 :wink

[Richard]

Very cool, Nik. :thumb

[Nikolai]

Very cool, Nik. :thumb
Merci, Richard! :wink

[z_28]

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 ???

[Richard]

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. :rofl

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

Cheers,

[z_28]

I know :huh
After that I have 30D for big rush sale :rolleyes

[Nikolai]

Sorry, special function Fn38 (Green Flash) is only available on the 40D. :rofl

lol :rofl
too funny :-)

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

[Nikolai]

I know :huh
After that I have 30D for big rush sale :rolleyes
Yeah, that's what I'm doing now...:deal :dunno

[Zanotti]

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

[Nikolai]

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 :-)