I've heard of the concept, (I know it's how you guys get clear film of tank
bullets and missiles in flight and such), but I know absolutely nothing.
Care to teach and give me some links to study? :)
The only ones I'm really familiar with are these.
http://www.phantomhighspeed.com/Products/Phantom-Camera-Products
On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 11:16 PM, jimlux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 6/5/18 6:30 PM, Chris Boden wrote:
>
>> Hi Nick, Matt, greetings :)
>>
>> The 240FPS you're going to get from an overcranked Sony won't show you
>> anything but mellow flowing arcs. We tried that with a Rx100MkV (it's what
>> the Captain's Blog series is shot on) and even with our big FS-100. 240
>> Frames is great for slow-mo at human speeds, but not this stuff.
>>
>> Even at 17kFPS we can't get much of what we want. We were trying for
>> stepped leaders, Project Thumper discharges, and Project Groucho's Marx
>> gap
>> going off.
>>
>> Our next step will be getting a serious high speed camera (up in the
>> 250,000FPS and faster range). But those come with 6-digit pricetags and
>> it's a long, long way down on the budgetary wishlist.
>>
>> I support anyone who wants to try this, when it comes to shooting arcs in
>> high speed I certainly wish you the best of luck trying to figure out the
>> lighting. We've never really figured out how to do it well.
>>
>> I think that just means we need to screw around with it more though. :)
>>
>>
>>
> Rapidly spinning mirrors my friend, rapidly spinning mirrors.
>
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