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High speed ballistic photography

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#1 ·
http://kuulapaa.com/home/highspeed.html

Lots of cool photos here. Link your favorite!

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Look at all the I burned powder. Makes you realize how much a suppressor goes through.

ETA: for some reason the copyright isn't showing up; the photo belongs to the owner of the site above, Kuulapaa
 
#5 ·
High speed is not all that expensive if you have a few pieces of gear. Don't know how advanced you are in photography or not but if you don't know a flash is faster than a shutter in most cases. There are high speed high frame cameras out there do sting tens of thousands if dollars as seen on MythBusters but you can do it with a quality strobe and a trigger. Pre-focus the area using a stable object in the path, use a good depth of field probably f8 or so and shut off the lights in a pitch dark range or outdoors on moonless night and open your shutter with the bulb setting.. Set up a quality strobe with a trigger that goes off with sound to light up the gun and fire a shot. Adjust the light output and ISO so the exposure looks good by trial and error, the less light the faster the light goes off and the sharper the moving object is. The trick is a Quality strobe, as fast as can be...the faster the output of the capacitor discharge the shorter the light duration and sharper the image since the camera will not record anything in pure darkness. Just shut the shutter after each shot and inspect then adjust. You can also get fancy with some sensors and lasers but a high speed strobe in darkness is the cheapest fool proof way of doing it. I am waiting for some specialized gear to trigger my cameras to arrive in June or so...looking forward to some testing. :)



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