Your thoughts on this? Your thoughts on this?If anyone would like to see the gold star families:
https://youtu.be/1qK2OHXHYPc?si=QfnbNZAFhdap39pH
They said Biden has never said their children’s names, so the said them. And the crowd repeated their names! Amazing moment.
The muzzle velocity of a .223 bullet is about 1200 to 4000 feet per second depending on particulars. If the bullet whizzing past Trump hadn’t slowed much it would travel 18” on a picture taken with a shutter speed of 1/800th to 1/2600th of a second. Those are fast but not uncommon shutter speeds with modern digital cameras.
If that photo was taken at 1/8000th of a second as the graphic says, 18” of bullet travel would indicate 12,000 feet per second. 1/8000th of a second isn’t likely - .223’s don’t travel that fast. The camera didn’t have to be super special, just timely.
My thoughts?
I’m thinking that what I was thinking, wasn’t as crazy to think, as I hoped it was...
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Why was CNN, BBC, others at this rally?
That supports exactly what I feared. I’ve never been able to make my
equipment go fast enough to capture a shot like that. It turns out that it’s
because none of my equipment can take useable 1/8000th of a second photo
at ANY frame rate. Not even close. I thought it would require an expensive
fast shutter speed camera with a serious lens, and it seems it does.
But more than that, there’s a reason such fast shutter speeds are rarely used.
They trade off light gathering ability, thus detail.
The reason someone would want a 1/8000th of a second exposure is to
stop the motion blur of extremely fast moving “stuff” to keep it all in focus.
That’s much too short a time to gather very many photons, so a pretty serious
lens is also part of any kit intended for such use.
No doubt that any serious professional photographer’s kit would indeed be
up to the task these days, but what was the photographer expecting, to
cause him to sacrifice potential image quality while photographing a
subject NOT expected to be moving at 2000+ feet per second?
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The camera at that speed could only be capture footage for ~10 seconds based on camera specs.
at 2:02:32
https://rumble.com/v5788hf-893-djt-top-gun-live.html
15 sec to set up 8000 frames a second
can only shoot at that speed for 10 frames
>20k$ camera
2800ft/sec speed of bullet
sniper rifle very expensive
The photographer was the same one that captured GWB on 911 with the goat book.https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2019/Q1/c-span-founder-brian-lamb-to-interview-news-photography-legend-doug-mills.html
Was he positioned to capture the kill shot?
I’ve been bogged down in numbers. Now I see what you were getting at ... why was that shot taken at such a high speed.