On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:07 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, it's just moderately fast. Fifteen years ago I shot a scene of an > airbag opening for a Lincoln commercial on film at over 2000 frames per > second. We had to build a veritable bridge to anchor the camera. Cooling > devices were necessary to prevent melting of the film. Today, that's nothing. > The latest shutter-less movie cameras can shoot 250,000 frames per second on > film.
Yeah, I can understand that. For very narrow technical reasons - you know, watching bullets go through apples and balloons and the like - I know you need that speed, and I know such ultra fast fps has been used. But for the average photographer? Nothing more than a marketing tool, I'm afraid. cheers, frank, feeling quite curmudgeonly today -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
