Doc Edgerton was asked many years ago to make a camera to photograph nuclear explosions. As a result, he created a company called EG&G which still exists today. Think how fast you have to be to capture the wave front of a nuclear explosion. All the balloon and apple photos were flash in his lab. The students had a grand time... Think of him when you take a flash photo - he invented them. Regards, Bob S.
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:21 PM, frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
