You know, when I watched it, there seemed to be a jump to me...right to the point of the guy reaching to draw his weapon to the next frame where there was a cloud of yellow spray.
I just assumed it all happened so fast that the victim saw him draw his gun, and they both sprayed/fired at the same time.
Is there any proof that frames were withheld, because your post was the first I heard of that, but if that happened, it would fit what I saw (and ignored) the very first time I saw the stop action frames.
There was mention of specific numbered frames that were missing from the news photographers 9NEWS article gallery in that gap...must be in the image meta-data .
can’t recall source at this time...would havevto wade through about 20+ bookmarked videos
There's an October 13 article over at RedState ("Photographer for Denver Post Who Captured Murder at Pro-Trump Rally May Have Some Issues") that includes the following:
In looking at the metadata on those images, one thing I noted is that in three sequences following the shot, the camera is recording 10 frames per second.
The sequence 880-889 are all captured at 3:36:55 PM
The sequence 890-899 are all captured at 3:36:56 PM
The sequence 900-909 are all captured at 3:36:57 PM
That is 30 images captured in 3 seconds, at a steady rate of 10 fps.
But if you go to the images before these, you see fewer than 10 images being captured per second:
Image 867 begins the capture at 3:36:53. But that sequence includes only 7 images — not 10 — and ends with Dolloff having his right hand on the handle of his firearm, but not having yet removed it from his waistband.
Image 874 begins the capture at 3:36:54 — the image with Dolloff having just fired the round. But that sequenced includes only 6 images — not 10.
As I said on Twitter, I’m not a user of a high-end digital camera like the one Richardson was using. But it sure seems odd to me that the camera consistently captured 10 frames per second in the 3 seconds starting at 3:36:55, but only 6 and 7 images per second in the two seconds prior to that when Dolloff was drawing his weapon and killing Keltner.
There was movement by both individuals in between images 873 and 874 which is not reflected in the photos that the Denver Post has released. That movement will demonstrate whether Dolloff drew his firearm in response to the action by Keltner with the mace canister — or he drew it before, and any movement by Keltner with the mace canister was in response to Dolloff pulling his handgun.
Maybe there is no photo that captures that movement. But by having originally withheld two photos in the sequence, Richardson and the Denver Post have lost the benefit of the doubt.
So, looks like the photographer (a Denver Post employee, rather than a tv news employee) may be withholding some critical frames - which is why the simulated video seems to "jump". The photo (from a cell phone video?) at the 'Independent Sentinal' article shows Dolloff with his handgun raised, but NO pepper spray in the air...