About a week ago a bat flew within inches of my face! I assumed it was catching bugs attracted to my headlamp. Fortunately, a few days before this, I had read a book about bats in which the author mentioned that bats may fly close to your head, but don’t worry, they won’t hit you. I hope he is right! Now bats in the headlight beam are almost a nightly occurrence. So, I decided to put a camera setup at my hummingbird feeders at the same time I had one at the waterhole. The bats really hits the sugar water hard!
This was with an Olympus E-M1X, the 40-150 f/2.8 lens at 55mm and f/8, bulb mode for 14.82 seconds, a Cognisys Sabre trigger, two Godox flashes at 1/32 power and Phottix Ares II flash triggers / receivers.
The first couple of nights I was using my Camtraption triggers, but for some reason, was getting slight ghosting even with a single flash. The Phottix Aries II are awesome triggers, although I don’t usually use them at night since they will turn off after 4 hours of no activity. The bats come around enough, that this isn’t a problem.
