GlimpseCatcher

Hello. In all honesty water drop photography is something you can achieve with the simplest kit. Camera, tripod, flash. If you have these three things you can get good results. However, should you require more control there are devices such as sensors, delay timers, solenoid valves to make it all nearly automatic, other than tripping the shutter.
I ran a quick search for glimpsecatcher and it seems like a homebrew timer delay based around arduino circuitry.
There are commercially available devices such as the camera axe http://www.cameraaxe.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page and others. Some have the option to buy as kits or whole units.
But in all honesty, unless you require the amount of control needed to produce a perfect shot, every time then stick to existing kit.
One quick set up would be your camera on a tripod near the sink, fill the sink and manually focus on the water that's hitting the now full sink. Set your camera to say two seconds exposure and say f8 to start, and have your flash set at 1/16th
Turn out the lights, get the tap to drip press the shutter. fire your flash manually when you feel the time is right.
 
Paula,
I use a CameraAxe as described by Simon above. I had the first version a few years ago and have the Mk4 at the moment but may try a Mk5 in the future.
Simon's perfectly right in that you can photograph droplets without any techno-help and it becomes quite intuitive when to fire the flash. The advantage of something like the CameraAxe is that you can get quite artistic by having control over the drop size and even program two drops to get collisions. Other sensors are available for sound triggers, light triggers etc.....it's not a one trick pony.
The developer of the Axe also set up a Forum for users and there's plenty of helpful folk around to get you on the right track.

Bob
 
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