The Ultimate High-Speed Photography Kit?

bigeoino

Saw this and thought the techies might be interested in it...

Mix NASCAR Cars at 200 mph and a modified Hasselblad to create a photo file, up to 3 GB, that has been printed as large as 280 feet by 7 feet.

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/digitalcameras/magazine/15-07/st_nascar

rymus

only thing I'd like less than getting fingers in the way of a roll of film moving at 1400rpm is getting body in the way of a nascar moving 200mph.

Fajitas!

I used to do this for Greyhound racing (The photo finish). Both film and digital. It was an incredibly boring, but easy, job.

magicbastarder

film zips past the slit at up to 1,400 rpm

rpm is not a speed. i would have thought someone writing for wired would have known this.

Fajitas!

TBH, the statement ""Failure is a necessity," he says, "and a lot of times, success is luck."" is BS. It's simply a matter of waiting for the right moment, opening the shutter, and closing the shutter. If your film is loaded, your exposure is set up and your frame composed, the only failure involved is missing the cars as they go past. I did 10-13 races, twice a week for 2 years, and I think only 7 races were borked, and those were technical failings that wouldn't happen with a Hassy.

Spyral

I concur, seems a bit over hyped and I love the "rpm" of the film.