7D can Catch a Bullet

[Sheiky]

You'll never see it in video

Can you tell me why?


If your camera films at 24/25 or even 60 fps with a shutterspeed of 1/8000th you must at least have an opportunity to take out one of the frames as a still? Alright your photo will only be 1920*1080 or 1280*720 pixels, but in my eyes it should be do-able right? Or am I looking the wrong way?

[Joel Eade]

I was visiting my brother-in-law over the 4th and he is an avid clay target shooter. Although a shotgun shoots a group of small pellets the velocity is similar to a 9 mm pistol bullet.....by shooting a bunch of frames I was clearly able to get a couple of pics where the "projectile" is clearly visible. So...it can be done with a han held camera and no elaborate flash setup....these were taken with my 1D MKIII and the EF 28-135mm 3.5 "kit lens" that came with my 40D. Shutter speed was 1/2000 ISO 640 f/5.0. Manual flash with a 430 ex at 1/8 power just for shadow fill. I have outlined the shotgun pellets in flight.


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