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I think it's pretty cool that they had cameras capable of recording at 500 frames per second back then. Then again they had enough technology and smart people t
by malbs 16y ago
I think it's pretty cool that they had cameras capable of recording at 500 frames per second back then. Then again they had enough technology and smart people to actually put men on the moon, so a 500 fps camera would have been a walk in the park.
In before any 'the moon-landings were faked' statements, although I would be surprised by any HN reader saying that unless tongue-in-cheek.
- abstractbill 16y agoI think it's pretty cool that they had cameras capable of recording at 500 frames per second back then. Harold Edgerton was doing amazing things with high-speed photography around the same time, inventing camera and flash technology that allowed for faster and faster exposures. Do check out his work if you've never seen it before.
- malbs 16y agoThanks for the tip off, I'll definitely check his work out.
- MaMa 16y agoHe also invented the Rapatronic camera that was used to take pictures of nuclear explosions with 10 nanosecond exposure times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapatronic_camera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapatronic_camera http://www.simplethinking.com/home/rapatronic_photographs.htm http://www.simplethinking.com/home/rapatronic_photographs.ht...
- nitrogen 16y agoThere were special effect cameras capable of at least 300fps in use in Hollywood long before then. Insanely fast cameras were used to analyze early nuclear bomb experiments. Here's the best reference I could find on old cameras (search for fps): http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/cinelisc.html http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/cinelisc.html See also: http://www.damninteresting.com/rapatronic-nuclear-photographs http://www.damninteresting.com/rapatronic-nuclear-photograph...