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

    Here's an index of sonic boom photos

  2. 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!