Quote Originally Posted by ama1997 View Post
I have herd that cs2 may not work on the newer computers. Ones running vista, or Windows7/8 The Shutter speed isnt that important if your using some type of flash.. With a speedlite or some type of studio strobe. You can use low shutters speeds 1/60 or so and still freeze motion, if you using a flash.. You will still have to be careful of camera shake. Also if your using some type of radio trigger to trigger your flash. Depending on what triggers you use. Some of them will not sync with the flash at 1/250. The cheap ebay triggers I use, only sync up to 1/160 so that could be an issue too. The flash speed is what freezes the motion, when using flash, when not using flash its the shutter speed. There is no problem with using 1/250 really. But you can freeze motion with a lot slower shutter speed, when using flash. I would use a tripod, but its kind of all up to you.. How you like to shoot... If you just shooting reptiles, you dont have to go and buy a really good tripod.. But like most things you get what you pay for. Buy a cheap tripod, it will last as long as a cheap tripod. I use a cheap tripod. I think it was 70.00 or so. But I only use it when shooting snakes, or maybe some macro stuff. I dont think my tripod has left my house more that two times. In the 5 years Ive had it. Now if your going to get into shooting some type of landscapes or something like that. Then your going to want to spend a bit of money, and get a decent tripod.

The reason I use a light box type of setup. And I guess its not really a light box, its more of a background holder. My setup using the tub all cut up like this. Allows me to a use different things as substrate, and not get it all over. It also somewhat helps me keep the animal where I want it.
That is not really correct. Yes sync speeds matter and yes they are slower. that is 100% true but the thing you have not considered is the duration the flash is 'on' for. Generally the flash in a studio situation is the brightest light source by far. So how long it is lit up for is the effective "shutter speed" my dynalite for example the is only on for 1:3800 of a second and some higher speed flashes run 1:10000 and faster. Flashes under these conditions will stop motion.