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Exhibition of High Speed Photography

Posted by michael on from the phun-with-photogates dept.

Dantastic writes: "If high-speed projectiles, breaking glass, and hot plates sound like fun, check out this site." No news here, just some really nice photographs. I didn't realize a tennis ball deformed that much.

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  1. Re:Who did that... by jedwards · · Score: 2, Interesting

    this balloon + bullet?
    http://world.std.com/~dpbsmith/bullets/bullets.h tm l

  2. Re:Jet Fighter Shockwave??? by jedwards · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Here's an index of sonic boom photos

  3. High speed photos of nuclear blasts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    These are a hoot ...

    http://www.vce.com/Rapatronic/rapa.html

    http://www.fas.org/nuke/hew/Usa/Tests/Upshotk.ht ml

  4. Digital High Speed Photography by ryanisflyboy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I used to work for a studio that did high-speed film work for ejection seat testing. One day the film crew got a hold of a digital camera that was able to do high speed video. I didn't ever learn a lot about it but it couldn't produce a full frame of video (768x512??) because the chip and the processing unit couldn't store information fast enough. It was also in black and white. Even with it's limitations we had a blast with that thing. We dropped nails, lit a match, broke a light bulb. Just about anything that we thought would look cool in slo-mo we did. Doing it the old way (as this studio still does) requires film processing and then transfer to video. It's basically a pain in the butt. So there is a lot of intrest in the high-speed community for a digital camera that can produce full frame video in color. Does anyone know what kinds of technology would be requried to make something like that possible? What if the 'gigapixel' cameras in the future had a 'slow-mo' mode? Imagine all the fun we could have!

  5. NO MORE MIRRORS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting
    "Mirroring", in Slashbots' minds, seems to be equivalent with stealing the hard work of high school students right from behind their backs . Please take time to read the plain, simple copyright notice on the site:

    Permission of the copyright holder is required in order to reproduce or distribute any photograph.

    If you "mirror" this site, to reiterate, you will be stealing from these unwitting students, taking advantage of their good will of putting them on the Internet. To steal these pictures is akin to the old cliché of stealing candy from a loving baby's mouth.

  6. More fantastic bursting balloons by nwetters · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Available here. I particularly like the cornstarch balloons.