{"id":15081,"date":"2019-07-17T05:14:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T09:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=15081"},"modified":"2019-07-20T15:00:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T19:00:13","slug":"duck-bang-finito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/duck-bang-finito\/","title":{"rendered":"duck! …bang …finito!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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speeding bullet head on<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. \u00a0Years ago, \u00a0Dr Edgerton<\/a> of MIT revolutionized the art of photography by using high speed flash to record mundane events in a fraction of a split second. \u00a0In the late 1950s, I bought a used Ultrablitz<\/a> Reporter IIL. The speed of its light flash was more in the range of camera shutter speeds with its 1\/800th and 1\/400th second bursts. Before then I always thought of electronic flash as super fast.<\/p>\n

On pp14 and 15 of the August 27th, 1956<\/a> issue of LIFE magazine, a regular column called “Speaking of Pictures<\/em>” features the remarkable work of Lawrence Faeth in the New Haven Conn. labs of Winchester-Western – the rifle makers of Winchester fame. The column shows how Faeth recorded a speeding bullet head on. His photo is amazing even today, over six decades later.<\/p>\n

N.B. Be sure to scroll through the pages of LIFE magazine above. With rare exception colour is reserved for advertisements by those with the money – most \u00a0photos in the articles are in black and white even if colour would be more suitable for them. And the products are sometimes long forgotten or viewed today in a far darker light (e.g. Marlboros are touted even though years later the poor old Marlboro Man died of lung cancer and cigarette ads have long been banned).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. \u00a0Years ago, \u00a0Dr Edgerton of MIT revolutionized the art of photography by using high speed flash to record mundane events in a fraction of a split second. \u00a0In the late 1950s, I bought a used Ultrablitz Reporter IIL. The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[2691,755,2690,425,2602,495,2689],"class_list":["post-15081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-bullet","tag-flash","tag-lawrence-faeth","tag-life","tag-life-ad","tag-photograph","tag-winchester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15081"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15112,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15081\/revisions\/15112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}