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Title: Slow motion lightning
Post by: Monsterlover on August 09, 2008, 06:42:05 AM
Thought this was cool

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=40275579
Title: Re: Slow motion lightning
Post by: Rameses on August 09, 2008, 08:00:39 AM
Wow, if that's real it's incredibly make the beast with two backsing cool.
Title: Re: Slow motion lightning
Post by: OwnyTony on August 09, 2008, 08:51:18 AM
Very cool.  Notice as the initial lightning blast branches down, and how when onr of the branches finally reach the ground, a larger bolt of lighting comes rushing down the exact same path of that branch.  Really cool and awesomely powerful
Title: Re: Slow motion lightning
Post by: DY on August 09, 2008, 12:22:00 PM
the path of least resistance... bad ass. 
Title: Re: Slow motion lightning
Post by: Monsterlover on August 09, 2008, 02:35:34 PM
I like all the little spirals and twisties that come before the big strike.  Bad ass!!
Title: Re: Slow motion lightning
Post by: Xiphias on August 09, 2008, 06:11:46 PM
Thanx ...
Title: Re: Slow motion lightning
Post by: NAKID on August 09, 2008, 09:02:59 PM
How many frames per second is that?
Title: Re: Slow motion lightning
Post by: x136 on August 09, 2008, 09:32:31 PM
Quote from: NAKID on August 09, 2008, 09:02:59 PM
How many frames per second is that?

Considering all of that happens in the span of a less than a second, a lot. As I recall, some of the fastest high-frame-rate cameras can burn through a few thousand frames of film per second.

With how random lightning is, I wonder how much film they wasted until they caught something. Amazing results, in any case.
Title: Re: Slow motion lightning
Post by: vstryker on August 09, 2008, 10:58:49 PM
Quote from: OwnyTony on August 09, 2008, 08:51:18 AM
when onr of the branches finally reach the ground, a larger bolt of lighting comes rushing down the exact same path of that branch.  Really cool and awesomely powerful

actually, the larger bolt (the one we usually see as the flash) comes from the GROUND then it rushes up. and if u look closely, u can see it orginates from the ground. it was in my geography class a few years back but nevertheless, very cool
Title: Re: Slow motion lightning
Post by: Rameses on August 09, 2008, 11:13:05 PM
Quote from: x136 on August 09, 2008, 09:32:31 PM
Considering all of that happens in the span of a less than a second, a lot. As I recall, some of the fastest high-frame-rate cameras can burn through a few thousand frames of film per second.

With how random lightning is, I wonder how much film they wasted until they caught something. Amazing results, in any case.


Wow, yeah I hadn't even thought about that.

You have no idea where lightning is going to strike.  Even during a lightning storm.

I wonder how long they had to film with that camera until they caught that.