Cool stop motion pictures

You guys should get a hold of the book Stopping Time by "Doc" Harold Edgerton, the pioneer of this field of photography. He had both a scientist's inquisitiveness and a master artist's sense of composition.

You might also look for the book Caught In Time by Stephen Dalton, the pioneer of applying these techniques to photographing organisms.

--Mike
 
if that guy can get a faster camera he can take a picture of how quick i can lose $100 bucks at a casino ...or how fast my girl friend can spend 100 at the mall lol
 
Evolute said:
You guys should get a hold of the book Stopping Time by "Doc" Harold Edgerton, the pioneer of this field of photography. He had both a scientist's inquisitiveness and a master artist's sense of composition.

You might also look for the book Caught In Time by Stephen Dalton, the pioneer of applying these techniques to photographing organisms.

--Mike
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Oh yah! Poppa flash! He even stopped the bullets dead in their tracks. I blew up a flash tube building some of his high speed strobe circuits... the tube was rated for 100 joules and near as I can figure I was pumping less than half that through it, but I was doing it so quickly that I guess the energy density was too much for it (normal camera strobes flash durration is between 1/20,000 and 1/50,000 of a second and I was trying to cut it down to 1/500,000 at most, using short copper bus bars and oil-filled discharge capacitors charged to about 1,200 volts to keep the inductance down. Amazing stuff!
 
Evolute said:
You guys should get a hold of the book Stopping Time by "Doc" Harold Edgerton, the pioneer of this field of photography. He had both a scientist's inquisitiveness and a master artist's sense of composition.

You might also look for the book Caught In Time by Stephen Dalton, the pioneer of applying these techniques to photographing organisms.

--Mike
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I was fortunate to have Doc Edgerton as a professor while I was a student at MIT in the 50's. In addition to his creative engineering work he was a great teacher and a very down to earth guy. At the end of the semester he invited all the folks that took his course to his house for a cookout.
 
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