On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Bob Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Yeah, you're right, Bob, I was confusing issues. The apple and balloon things weren't rapid frames per second, they were single photos with very short-duration high-intensity strobes to freeze motion with incredible sharpness. They were pretty cool. I suppose that 60 fps in a consumer camera is a technical tour-de-force, and it will sell cameras, and just because I'd never use or need it, doesn't mean that someone else couldn't have lots of fun with it and do some interesting things. I should stop being so grouchy! ;-) cheers, frank -- "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.
