Stop motion bullet photos

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The fastest cameras are up to 250,000 frames per second.
The problem is that you can only get a few seconds of film from each run.
You have to spin up the film and as soon as it gets to speed make the exposure before running out of film.
They require extremely intense lighting since the shutter speeds are often less than 1/500,000 of a second.
The mechanical design of the film advance is also a real chore.
A number of tricks are used to move the image with the film to avoid the start/stop movement of the film required in typical movie cameras.
 
I thought it could also be done with a very LONG exposure and then a quick light source?

I know nothing about photography but I do like those pictures.
 
I thought it could also be done with a very LONG exposure and then a quick light source?
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Not so much a long exposure as holding the shutter open during the event, in a darked area, and using the flash to determine the exposure time. That's usually the cheapest/easiest way to do it. Cameras with really fast shutters are fairly expensive; even a fairly cheap hotshoe flash can perform flashes of less than 1/100,000 sec duration.
 
There is the link to where the pics came from.
That's NOT where they came from, that is where I stored them.
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My fault, if you want me to remove the link I certainly will. I simply pulled the link from the IMG source.
 
My fault, if you want me to remove the link I certainly will. I simply pulled the link from the IMG source.
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don't worry about it. I just don't want anyone thinking that there are bigger high res versions there.
 
Early real high speed photography was done by EG&G, Edgerton, Germeshausen and Grier, Inc. I believe it was primarily Dr. Edgerton that developed the cameras used to record the nuclear explosions in our early nuclear weapons development.

The method that they were using in the 60's had the film placed on the inside wall of a cylinder in a spiral wrap and then a spinning mirror in the center of the cylinder. Thus the film did not need to move, when you opened the lens the image would be spun onto the film by the rotating mirror.

As an undergrad student that was employed by a USAF research grant operation, I had to film crt screens during a launch. We had 33mm cameras that had both a take up motor and a push feed motor. :what: A film jam resulted in a large mass of film wadded into one ball of goo. We didn't get to use EG&G technology, just got educated on it.
 
just for clarification, are these known as stop motion? because i was under the impression that stop motion is those kids on youtube making a video out of a lot of pictures.
 
What is the original link for those pictures? Are there prints for sale? I have been looking for Doc Edgerton pictures for a while now.
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I wish I knew but I don't know were the original is. I got them from another site I visit about boating.
 
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What is the original link for those pictures? Are there prints for sale? I have been looking for Doc Edgerton pictures for a while now.
"I wish I knew but I don't know were the original is. I got them from another site I visit about boating."


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