This time of year in Tucson is referred to as "monsoon season". We are subject to occasional severe thunderstorms accompanied by lightning and thunder. I recently spent the day on a nearby mountain - Mt Lemmon - which is some 8,000 feet higher and 25-30 degrees cooler than Tucson. While there I was a spectator for a pretty spectacular afternoon thunderstorm over the Tucson valley.
I was doing some testing that day with my Sony DSC-RX100 so I decided to set it up to take video of the storm. The short Vimeo clip below is an edited version of what I took. I used my Casablanca to edit out the "dead space" between strikes to speed things up. I also edited the thunder audio to better match the video.
I was using the 1080/60i mode of the RX100. I set the video mode to "Program" which allowed me to vary the shutter speed and aperture simultaneously, keeping the exposure constant. For most of the video I set the shutter speed to 1/4 second.
The next time I do this I would like to set the RX100 mode to 1080/60P which provides a 2:1 slow-motion clip on the Casablanca. I would also try a very fast shutter speed to see how that affects the video of the lightning.
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