Bullet Time ....well sort of...

[drift1122]

Awsomeness!! I wanna see more!

 

[General Ripper]

thats about the least blur you are going to get without building an air gap flash, a strobe maxes out (or minimums out i should say) at 1/40 000 (ish)

Yes I have been reading up on this. They actually look pretty good compared to most. At my flash rate of about 1/40,000 sec the bullet moves about 1/3 of an inch. Even the air gap flash allows some movement, as show on the web. So I think I will just stay with what I have. I will try some other guns....DE50 and Czech Mate. The blurred bullets give an interesting feeling of extreme speed.

Thanks for the comments.

John

 

[highbeam]

I'd love to see what something like a TT-33 or another pistol known for large muzzle flashes looks like with that sort of photography. Heck I'll even volunteer mine as I'm in the Okanagan too.

 

[General Ripper]

The DE 50 should provide the flame. The trick is to try to catch the bullet before too much fire comes out. So with the 50 I will try to get an early picture...as you can see the fire will probably overwhelm the exposure.

 

[Kieran]

that looks great!... this thread has got me thinking...
If you have ever been to the National Association of Broadcasters show in Vegas (which i assume not many people here have) you will see a wide verity of high speed cameras... there are a lot of them popping up here and there for broadcast use... Vision Reasearch, Photron, Weiss and For.A just to name a few... a lot of them are industrial cameras that have found a great additional market in broadcast... I have been tempted to use up some favors and rent/borrow/barter one from a rental house and take it to the range... ideally I would like to produce a video for a manufacturer and work in some high speed work... maybe i should make some calls this summer and drag some gear out to the range...

 

[ghostntheshell]

Awesome!

 

[ghostntheshell]

You should capture an m44 shooting surplus - catch the firebreathing dragon!

 

[Clobbersauras]

Excellent pics!

 

[Pancake81]

Awesome, thanks for sharing

 

[Pancake81]

If you go out again, try it with a shotgun. Would be neat to see all the pellets coming out with the wad behind it

 

[misanthropist]

I'm surprised at how early the slide seems to be unlocking.

 

[raks]

As in most Browning style actions, the barrel and slide will recoil together for a distance before unlocking starts. Its my understanding that the actual unlocking is engineered to happen very shortly after the bullet leaves the barrel.

 

[Clobbersauras]

I wish I had your equipment for some of the flash hiders I've tested over the last couple of years. Would make it so much easier.