High Speed photography

[fastestshot]

I'm looking for a experienced high speed photographer for making "bullet art".

I have been looking all over the web but did have a hard time getting in contact with anyone with very high standards and quality.

Please if you know anyone, have a link or if you could do it please let me know I'll be very thankful.

[kkhardwarestore]

I have done some high speed shots. Are you trying to stop a bullet? Or just trying to catch the results? If you are trying to stop a bullet there is no inexpensive way to do that. I have looked into it extensively, studied Harold "Doc" Edgerton's experiments, etc. The speed of the light has to be 1/100k to 1/150k of a second to catch the bullet with a still camera. To get these speeds requires a large transformer and some expensive circuitry. About the fastest light source I can find is 1/40k second without spending a lot of $. Depending on what you are wanting this for you could contact MIT electrical engineering department, they have the equipment. Another less expensive possibility is to use an industrial grade high speed video camera, then isolating a frame.

These shots were taken with a flash which is approx. 1/40k of a second.

http://users.powwwer.net/ckds/FM/bottle.jpg
.22 Caliber Rifle vs. Bottle



http://users.powwwer.net/ckds/FM/peas.jpg
.45 ACP vs. Peas


http://users.powwwer.net/ckds/FM/shave.jpg
9mm Lugar vs. Barbasol

[Karl Johnston]

Those shots are deadly !!!!!

[c-bass]

don't know much about high speed photography but you may look into a videographer and transfer a shot from video. you may also find someone with reloading equipment that could reload a heavy bullet with very little powder to obtain a slower bullet path. if you go to winchester, federal, etc. they have ballistic charts that have speed, impact, and so on that may help finding a slower bullet. also Red Rider makes one hell of a slow BB gun. ha.

[dingelingyi]

i hope you don't live in CA, you can purchase subsonic ammunition which travels 1/3 to 1/2 of regular bullets speed (suppressor is required)

[kkhardwarestore]

don't know much about high speed photography but you may look into a videographer and transfer a shot from video. you may also find someone with reloading equipment that could reload a heavy bullet with very little powder to obtain a slower bullet path. if you go to winchester, federal, etc. they have ballistic charts that have speed, impact, and so on that may help finding a slower bullet. also Red Rider makes one hell of a slow BB gun. ha.


Several problems with low velocity loads. 1st if you slow it down too much it will not make it out of the rifled barrel, this is potentially very dangerous and definitely a huge PITA. 2nd if it makes it out of the barrel but is moving slowly the bullet will tumble end over end. 3rd, most people want to catch the bullet as it exits some object. If it is moving too slowly it won't make it through the object.

Sub sonic .22 ammo travels 500-600 fps. The fastest strobe without spending a lot of $ is 1/40,000 second. So, 500(fps) x 12 (inches) = 6,000 inches. 6000 inches / 40,000 = .15 inches. The bullet will travel .15 inches in 1/40,000 second which equals a blur on your image. OTOH if your flash duration were 1/100,000 second. the same 500fps bullet would travel only .06 inches which would be somewhat clear. And if you could kick that up to 1/150k second, the bullet would travel .04 inches. To get these speeds requires a lot of voltage and some pretty expensive electronic components.

As I mentioned above and you suggested, it would likely be cheaper to film the shot with a high speed industrial camera. The problem with this is that most of these types of cameras shoot fairly low resolution shots.

To get shots like this one by Doc Edgerton, there is really no alternative to a very fast, expensive strobe.

http://users.powwwer.net/ckds/forums/edgerton_bullet.jpg

[IamKP]

wow, amazing shots!

[NitroTang]

I don't know if this is somewhat related to this topic, but I am in college and have been living in an apartment that has been passed down to us by some previous friends of mine. I've got a quarter left of school before I graduate and was cleaning out some stuff and was wondering if anyone here or if you know of anyone who would be interested in some FREE bullets. I found them in the closet, probably left by some forgetful person a couple years ago and I don't know what I should do with them. Don't know if throwing it out in the trash is such a good idea.

I have no clue about ammunition but I have 2 boxes: 1 CCI Blazer Brass Ammunition 40 S&W 180 gr. FMJ and a box of 9mm Luger 50 cartridges.

If you have any use for them or know of how I can get rid of them, please let me know! Thanks!