Those are some nice images. I have a feeling you are really enjoying your camera.
Great shots. Now take a picture of the bullet in flight.
Nice
John,
I concur with Red that you should take some photos of bullets in flight like this one that I posted about (http://blogofbryce.blogspot.com/2006/04/photo-of-
week.html). If you follow the link from my post to MIT, they show a lot of amazing photos of bullets in flight. Go check it out!
It has been a while since I have read your blog. It's great to see you posting more! I hope all is well with you in Texas. I should email you one of these days...
Bryce
Nice photos, though you might want to try a smaller F# so you can shoot with a lower ISO. 1600 is awful grainy, IMHO, and you can do quite a bit with lower settings.
http://thumbsnap.com/v/EiKBRM6R.jpg
Here's an image I took; it was a fairly bright day, but we were in the shade.
Settings were: 1/320s, f4.5, ISO320. EOS30D.
Yes, 1600 was awful grainy. We were at 1/4000'th shutter, trying to capture a bullet. We didn't catch what we were looking for, sadly. But we'll try again on a brighter day.
Nice shot of the flintlock! Very nice indeed...
~ In Christ, John.
Seeing those old flintlocks in action gives a new appreciation for what soldiers went through on the battlefields of the 1700 and 1800s.
I managed to get several nice muzzle flashes that day (At Jamestown).
As for capturing a bullet on camera, you would probably have an easier time getting a 45 in the air (slower speed), but somehow I doubt it can be done without extra/special equipment.
45 ACP travels at around 1000 fps (depending on load), meaning at 1/4000 the bullet would (at best) be a 3-4 inch long blur in a picture. Maybe get some sub-sonic loadings?
Haha, that information is exactly correct about the 4 inch blur. We captured a couple of those with the HV20, actually. I just never took the right photo with the XTi.
Anyway, we had some loads running about 800 fps.
Anyway, to do it effectively, one would need a camera capturing 20,000 frames per second or so. Or at leasta 1/20'000'th shutter speed.
Well, my 30D can shoot 1/8000th. That would get a two inch blur, and it's got a pretty fast "salvo" option to boot. Could you make a custom 45 load that would travel as slow as 600 fps?
Could you upload an image of the bluring bullet?
Also, if you put the camera adjacent to the shooter, or the weapon, pointed toward the target, the flying projectile would have less lateral movement from the camera's perspective and would appear to be traveling slower, thus allowing a sharper image.
Artillery gunners in WW2 could often see the 155MM shells they fired as they arced towards target. Same principle.
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