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?
~Easy
ThankQ! I know very little about cameras or velocity.