Re: The Physics of Photographing Moving Subjects

2010-12-28 Thread Doug Franklin
On 2010-12-25 20:30, Doug Franklin wrote: On 2010-12-25 18:22, Igor Roshchin wrote: I don't think that it is exactly the moire effect, as there are no true interference, and there are no different-angle grids. You are, of course, correct. I was using the term moire at more of a meta level.

Re: The Physics of Photographing Moving Subjects

2010-12-27 Thread Joseph McAllister
Without knowing the tire size at all you could use the un-overlapped part of the tire's white manufacturers name at the top of the tire to roughly calculate the amount of rotation in 1/250 of a sec. as a percent of full rotation. The lighter ends of the ghost image seems equal fore and aft.

Re: The Physics of Photographing Moving Subjects

2010-12-25 Thread Igor Roshchin
I think Paul gave the right explanation, or at least that the explanation I head the moment I read the answer. My estimates gave similar numbers, but I didn't have time to write a message, so I was sure somebody else would write it. (That's what professors often do when teach a class: they let

Re: The Physics of Photographing Moving Subjects

2010-12-25 Thread Doug Franklin
On 2010-12-25 11:59, Igor Roshchin wrote: I think Paul gave the right explanation, or at least that the explanation I head the moment I read the answer. Yep, the more I've thought about it the more I think Paul was right, too. I should note that a similar effect can be expected when the

Re: The Physics of Photographing Moving Subjects

2010-12-25 Thread Paul Ewins
I couldn't be bothered to do any research at all and just used 600mm as the tire height. (Are your students this lazy Igor?) Race slicks are normally sold as being overall width by overall height by rim size. I'm used to seeing it expressed in mm x mm x inch, but the figures there are about

Re: The Physics of Photographing Moving Subjects

2010-12-25 Thread Igor Roshchin
Sat Dec 25 11:26:39 CST 2010 Doug Franklin wrote: I should note that a similar effect can be expected when the tire makes not about 1/15th of a turn, but also 2/15th, 3/15th, etc. (N/15), but the contrast will be lower, and it probably wouldn't work beyond N=3 (or maybe even 2,

Re: The Physics of Photographing Moving Subjects

2010-12-25 Thread Peter Loveday
Yep agreed, this is not a Moire effect, simply overlapped arcs of blurred spoke. - Peter -Original Message- From: Igor Roshchin Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2010 9:52 AM To: PDML@pdml.net Subject: Re: The Physics of Photographing Moving Subjects Sat Dec 25 11:26:39 CST 2010 Doug

Re: The Physics of Photographing Moving Subjects

2010-12-25 Thread Doug Franklin
On 2010-12-25 18:22, Igor Roshchin wrote: I don't think that it is exactly the moire effect, as there are no true interference, and there are no different-angle grids. You are, of course, correct. I was using the term moire at more of a meta level. The overlap is a sort of interference, if

Re: The Physics of Photographing Moving Subjects

2010-12-24 Thread Doug Franklin
On 2010-12-24 1:37, Larry Colen wrote: Doug, there should be a every body can see this URL at the bottom of the page, but you're the only one that'll see it. Thanks for the tip Larry. I already had the security set to everyone but posted the wrong link. Here's the one that Facebook claims

Re: The Physics of Photographing Moving Subjects

2010-12-24 Thread Doug Franklin
On 2010-12-23 23:38, Paul Ewins wrote: [...] During the 1/250 sec each spoke travel a little bit further than the distance to the next spoke. This means there are sections where it has doubled up (i.e. both the current and previous spoke have occupied that position during the exposure) so you

Re: The Physics of Photographing Moving Subjects

2010-12-24 Thread Doug Franklin
On 2010-12-23 23:49, paul stenquist wrote: Too small an image to see what you're referring to -- at least for my old yes. Let's see a wheel at 100%. Here's the 100% view of just that rear wheel: http://nutdriver.org/IMGP2777-wheel-detail.jpg -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss

Re: The Physics of Photographing Moving Subjects

2010-12-24 Thread David Parsons
You can see some of that effect in these iPhone pictures. http://blog.flickr.net/en/2010/08/24/rolling-rolling-rolling-shutter/ On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Doug Franklin jehosep...@mindspring.com wrote: On 2010-12-23 23:38, Paul Ewins wrote: [...]  During the 1/250 sec each spoke travel

The Physics of Photographing Moving Subjects

2010-12-23 Thread Doug Franklin
OK, I know there are some folks around the list that know a lot more about the physics, optics, and other science surrounding our hobby than I do. And I'm asking their help in understanding something. In the following photo, take a specific look at the way that the wheels and in particular

Re: The Physics of Photographing Moving Subjects

2010-12-23 Thread Peter Loveday
Subject: The Physics of Photographing Moving Subjects OK, I know there are some folks around the list that know a lot more about the physics, optics, and other science surrounding our hobby than I do. And I'm asking their help in understanding something. In the following photo, take a specific look

RE: The Physics of Photographing Moving Subjects

2010-12-23 Thread John Coyle
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: The Physics of Photographing Moving Subjects OK, I know there are some folks around the list that know a lot more about the physics, optics, and other science surrounding our hobby than I do. And I'm asking their help in understanding something. In the following

Re: The Physics of Photographing Moving Subjects

2010-12-23 Thread Paul Ewins
I'm not sure that I'm answering your question correctly, but I threw a whole lot of assumptions at a spreadsheet and came up with the conclusion that in that 1/250 sec the wheel rotated around 1/10 of a revolution. If I am counting right there are 15 spokes in the wheels. During the 1/250 sec

Re: The Physics of Photographing Moving Subjects

2010-12-23 Thread paul stenquist
Too small an image to see what you're referring to -- at least for my old yes. Let's see a wheel at 100%. Paul On Dec 23, 2010, at 10:39 PM, Doug Franklin wrote: OK, I know there are some folks around the list that know a lot more about the physics, optics, and other science surrounding our

Re: The Physics of Photographing Moving Subjects

2010-12-23 Thread paul stenquist
On Dec 23, 2010, at 11:49 PM, paul stenquist wrote: Too small an image to see what you're referring to -- at least for my old yes. Let's see a wheel at 100%. That would be for my ole eyes. Paul On Dec 23, 2010, at 10:39 PM, Doug Franklin wrote: OK, I know there are some folks around

Re: The Physics of Photographing Moving Subjects

2010-12-23 Thread Larry Colen
On Dec 23, 2010, at 8:37 PM, John Coyle wrote: Wants me to log in. Not a Facebook user, so no can do. Doug, there should be a every body can see this URL at the bottom of the page, but you're the only one that'll see it. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML

Re: The Physics of Photographing Moving Subjects

2010-12-23 Thread Larry Colen
On Dec 23, 2010, at 8:38 PM, Paul Ewins wrote: I'm not sure that I'm answering your question correctly, but I threw a whole lot of assumptions at a spreadsheet and came up with the conclusion that in that 1/250 sec the wheel rotated around 1/10 of a revolution. If I am counting right