HIGH SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY TO BUILD BETTER BOWS

[AALLFAB]

Any inexpensive ways to shoot high speed photos or slow down a movie in s smooth way to see how limbs unfold during a shot to see how they are timed to each-other? Jim

[Yeoman Bowman]

AALLFAB,

Sorry for the late reply, but I just saw your post.

You need a special video camera that shoots thousands of frames per second. That way when the video is slowed down, each frame is still clear and sharp. These types of cameras are used to record events that happen too fast for the human eye to follow.(A bullet passing through an apple, for example).

These are not the kinds of cameras that most people buy. Typically a research institute or the government would have them.

A regular camcorder from BigBox Stores shoots about 30 frames per second. When slowed down, you just get blurred images.

Check out this website for high speed cameras.

  http://www.photron.com/

Yeoman

[AALLFAB]

thanks i will check it out. Jim

[B M A]

Contact Kirk at Bigfoot Bows a sponsor here.  He has a set up that works great.  He will help you out.

[AALLFAB]

Cool site Yeoman but cant find prices i will also try Kirk

[Yeoman Bowman]

Update: Casio has come out with 2 consumer camera/camcorder that does high speed video. The Exilim EX-ZR100 and the EX-F1.

A review of the EX-F1 is available here:

 http://www.pcworld.com/article/141079/casio_unveils_super_highspeed_digital_still_camera.html

and a video of the EX-ZR100 is here:

 

Looks pretty neat.

The EX-F1 is still pricey at $3000, but the EX-ZR100 is only $300 or so.

Yeoman

[AALLFAB]

300 is about the number i was looking for so i will be researching that one for sure, thanks. Jim