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High Speed Camera Equipment and the results of being bored

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Zaitsevs

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the first one is a jar full of blue colored water, with red food coloring on top, so when it was smashed they'd mix.

and the second is just a can of pop

third is just colored water being smashed in a jar.
 
the shutter is open when the shot is taken, the sound of the crash activates the flash. < that's all I know.

I'm not sure on the speed, I'll have to ask my friend. he's more into photography than I am, but I'm sort of capable too.


yeah, let me post the others.
 
Originally posted by: Zaitsevs
he said it depends on however fast the flash is, which is one thirty thousanth of a second.
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sweetness. Now give us a link to the equipment.

Then take a pic of a high caliper rifle shooting a water melon. that would be nice. thank you.

😀
 
For those who don't know how high speed photography works, it's not because of a ultra-fast shutter speed. The shutter is never fast enough to catch the action, so it's actually a long shutter shot that uses flash to expose the action.
 
Originally posted by: Heifetz
For those who don't know how high speed photography works, it's not because of a ultra-fast shutter speed. The shutter is never fast enough to catch the action, so it's actually a long shutter shot that uses flash to expose the action.
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Wait a minute. So, you leave the shutter open and the flash acts like your shutter? So you could only do it in a darkened room then right?

Interesting. I had no idea.
 
Originally posted by: Heifetz
For those who don't know how high speed photography works, it's not because of a ultra-fast shutter speed. The shutter is never fast enough to catch the action, so it's actually a long shutter shot that uses flash to expose the action.
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Wanna explain further then?

What makes high speed equipment able to capture these things? Super senstive film or sensors?

I'm curious. I know there are super high speed video cameras out there but don't know how those work either.
 
We just used a canon ( don't know the model number) digital camera. It's one of the top of the line ones, but basically, you open the shutter and then the flash goes off. It exposes the CCD to light.

there are three different sensors. one is laser and an eye, if the laser is broken, the flash goes off. one is for sound activation, and one is for motion activation. We used the sound activation.

it also has a timer, so when it hears the sound, it waits a certian time until it flashes. This equipment does not even hook up to your camera, and YES you do need to be in a completely dark room. otherwise the light would shot would be over exposed.
 
Pop a water balloon?
I like the firecracker idea above.
Break a lit lightbulb and catch the filament as it goes poof?
Snap a shot of a paintball being shot against a target as the ball explodes, or maybe as it hits some guys flesh so you can see it starting to break and his flesh all caved in?
Get a WeedEater shot as it chews into a phone book, house plant or some other object?
 
Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
I'd like to see a firecracker explode.
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wow! Good idea. plus it would trigger the flash.

more on the firecracker idea...

take a M80 or water proof bottle rocket (moon travelers) and put it into a glass bottle full of water. *WARNING* only do this if you are competent with fireworks and the safety precautions that need to be taken.
 
we already thought of the paintball idea but we did not have enough C02.

the waterballoon one too.

also I'll post them when and if they happen.
 
ooo, how about a tire blowing up (if you can do this one, shoot it with a nail gun? haha)

a sneeze!!! nasty but interesting.

bubble gum popping is cool.
 
You have to understand how a camera captures a picture to understand how this works. When you open a shutter, available light starts to expose the film or sensor. The shutter can be open indefinitely, but the picture will not be exposed if there is no light. There are two ways you can capture a high speed shot. One is to use an ultra fast shutter speed, and have the subject lit. The constraint is that cameras only go down to certain shutter speeds, like 1/1000 sec, and that might be too slow. At the same time, you have to time the shutter to capture the action. And the shutter is a mechanical action so there is a natural delay. The easier way to capture extreme fast shots is to keep the entire frame dark, have an open shutter, and hit the subject with a strobe to expose it. You can get strobes that are extremely fast, so you can really freeze action, and not worry about the shutter at all.

This is how pictures like bullets hitting watermelons are taken. It's way too fast for any mechanical shutter to capture, so they just hit it with strobes to freeze the action.
 
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