Posted on 10/01/2009 5:04:17 PM PDT by Reaganesque
Photographer Ben Cooper took this photo of a Delta 4-Heavy rocket launching at Cape Canaveral using a sound-activated camera. And when your camera is that close to a launch, your lens probably won't survive.
The particular setup for this was sound activated. The lens was destroyed (worth it of course) but the camera survived this one despite being severed from its ratchet straps and thrown to the ground, and the sound device used for this one disconnected from the camera and thrown about 200 feet backwards into the pad perimeter fence (still worked!). All settings are preset manually. No one is allowed closer than several miles from a launch.
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Wow. Nice shot.
Thanks for the ping. We are launching something on one of these and just yesterday, I found out and I have to up my launch load factors! :-0
Vey kewl.
Dude, you ain’t right...in a way cool kind of way.
LOL!
SZ
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