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Old 08-09-2008, 04:24 AM   #1
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Default Slow Motion Lightning
http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/...Lightning.html

nice
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Old 08-09-2008, 04:38 AM   #2
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Nice find, holy hell.
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Old 08-09-2008, 04:45 AM   #3
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Woah [thumbup]
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Old 08-09-2008, 04:54 AM   #4
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Looks stunning in slow motion
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Old 08-09-2008, 04:54 AM   #5
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Pretty cool.
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Old 09-08-2008, 08:38 AM   #6
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Dammit, now instead of having 0.5 seconds of my life wasted, I had to waste 25 whole seconds watching that! I mean, seriously...

J/K of course, it was pretty damned cool. Would've been interesting to see just how long exactly that took to occur in real time.
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Old 09-08-2008, 08:39 AM   #7
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I just watched that 5 straight times. cool indeed.
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Old 09-08-2008, 09:33 AM   #8
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very nice
I like how it "searches" for the closest thing before it hits
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Old 09-08-2008, 11:37 AM   #9
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Yep, extremely fast camera's that can capture movement at the speed of light. Saw it on a science documentary once, something like 1 billion frames per second to catch it or something.

I can't remember the exact details but it was a documentary about cameras. They started with cameras that can capture the speed of a bullet hitting an object. Than another camera which shows a grenade exploding in slow motion and you can see how it blows up like a balloon before exploding. And so on. The last camera they shows was a fairly big one and it showed electricity jumping from one end to the other in slow motion.
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Old 09-08-2008, 11:44 AM   #10
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want a dreamscene of it [xmastongue]
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Old 09-08-2008, 04:58 PM   #11
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That's beautiful.
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Old 09-08-2008, 05:06 PM   #12
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Amazing stuff. Interesting how the branches spread out to find the closest contact point only to be followed by a large bolt of lightning.

To be honest though, I didn't think there were camera's with extremely high framerates that existed which could capture the speed of light. [surrender]
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Old 09-08-2008, 05:27 PM   #13
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Looks like they were using a Casio EX-F1..heres some more slow motion action with the same camera...

http://gizmodo.com/search/Casio%20EX-F

The Casio can take video @ 1200fps [shocked]
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Old 09-08-2008, 06:11 PM   #14
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Looks like they were using a Casio EX-F1..heres some more slow motion action with the same camera...

http://gizmodo.com/search/Casio%20EX-F

The Casio can take video @ 1200fps [shocked]
How can 1200fps be enough to capture lightning
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Old 09-08-2008, 06:17 PM   #15
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How can 1200fps be enough to capture lightning
it can't, light travels at something like 30cm per nanosecond so you need something running MUCH faster then 1200fps to of captured something like seen in that vid.
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Old 09-08-2008, 06:24 PM   #16
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Hey don't shoot the messenger guys, im just stating what the camera can do in standard spec, for all we know the camera had afew extra bits and bobs attached for that shot.
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Old 09-08-2008, 06:32 PM   #17
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it can't, light travels at something like 30cm per nanosecond so you need something running MUCH faster then 1200fps to of captured something like seen in that vid.
1000 FPS is MORE than enough to capture lightning.
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Old 09-08-2008, 06:36 PM   #18
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Ive just re-read the quote...

Well, this is just about the most amazing thing I've ever seen. It's a lightning bolt that's shooting down from the sky, shot in slow motion. I'm not sure exactly how fast this camera is, but it's got to be shooting at a speed faster than the Casio EX-F1 can shoot at, at least at a resolution this high. Whatever, who cares? Just watch this and prepare to be blown away. So its not a EX-F1 [ban]my mistake

Some people are saying 5000-10000fps to get a shot like that, others are saying its a Phantom V12 which can capture @ 1.000.000fps

http://www.visionresearch.com/index....ge=Phantom_v12

Anyway regardless of the kit used which by the way is SO over my head the end result which we all agree on is simply cool
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Old 09-08-2008, 07:08 PM   #19
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Right then more vids and more info....

Another slow motion lightning clip. The last one I posted was 15,000 FPS which made it quite amazing. This one is 4,000 FPS; not as many as the last, but still pretty sweet. http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/...ghtning-2.html

http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/...Lightning.html
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Old 09-08-2008, 07:35 PM   #20
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it can't, light travels at something like 30cm per nanosecond so you need something running MUCH faster then 1200fps to of captured something like seen in that vid.
Light speed and the way lightnings spread have nothing to do with each other.
It's exactly as if you referred to fireworks or something. Yes, lightnings are obviously faster than fireworks, but a lightning's movement can be even seen (sometimes) with the naked eye.
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