Photo of an atomic bomb milliseconds after detonation

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That's really something to see. Somehow both repulsive and compelling. Thanks for posting that.
 
Wow, thanks for posting..
 
I've seen it before of course, but still - wow. And to think that this was achieved with 1952 technology is almost literally incredible.
 
Hey StewartR, have you got one of those 10 foot lenses for hire by any chance, and a camera with a shutter speed like that one had to go with it :D. If you had I bet it would be out of my budget though.

John, that is truely amazing and thanks for posting the link. Whilst I have seen some of those photos before I've not seen any info on how they were done. I guess you could say I was 'Blown Away' by that! :cool:
 
modchild said:
Hey StewartR, have you got one of those 10 foot lenses for hire by any chance, and a camera with a shutter speed like that one had to go with it :D. If you had I bet it would be out of my budget though.

John, that is truely amazing and thanks for posting the link. Whilst I have seen some of those photos before I've not seen any info on how they were done. I guess you could say I was 'Blown Away' by that! :cool:
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Yep blown away is certainly the right word... who would think all those shapes would be in there :wideyed:
 
I wanted to find a picture of the gear : "The photo was shot at night through a 10 foot lens, situated 7 miles away from the blast",
amazing stuff.
 
modchild said:
and a camera with a shutter speed like that one had to go with it
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If I remember, the shutter was a combination of a spinning triangular mirror prism which was used to reflect light through a spinning disk with a slot in it. The two were synchronised by gearing and span at extremely high speed making it possible to achieve amazingly short shutter speeds. The amount of available light from the detonation helped, of course :(
 
ChrisGilbert said:
If I remember, the shutter was a combination of a spinning triangular mirror prism which was used to reflect light through a spinning disk with a slot in it. The two were synchronised by gearing and span at extremely high speed making it possible to achieve amazingly short shutter speeds. The amount of available light from the detonation helped, of course :(
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I believed they used a "rapatronic" type camera, which is actually a shutterless camera that uses a bank of polarising filters at different angles to create the 10 nanosecond exposure:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapatronic_camera
 
He must have used a very powerful speedlight to get that shot at a range of 7 miles:rolleyes:

This is a time when you can use the word "awesome".
 
I've returned to see it again and I'm still amazed. In my book these images rank right up there as some of the most important photographs ever taken.
 
Farmerjim said:
He must have used a very powerful speedlight to get that shot at a range of 7 miles:rolleyes:

This is a time when you can use the word "awesome".
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I reckon that great big nuclear speedlight there would probably give enough light

nuclear-bomb-explosion.jpg


StewartR said:
I've returned to see it again and I'm still amazed. In my book these images rank right up there as some of the most important photographs ever taken.
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Yeah I have looked at it a few times to
 
These are some amazing pictures. It's incredible how something so destructive can create something so spectacular to look at.
 
The first time I remember being especially fascinated with photography was when I first saw Edgerton's work. His images of water are especially beautiful.
 
Those are stunning, but what I really want to know is were I get the camera from. At that speed I may be able to get a shot with out someone blinking.
 
acetone said:
Those are stunning, but what I really want to know is were I get the camera from. At that speed I may be able to get a shot with out someone blinking.
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No...not possible.

That would be as possible as doing a wedding group photo and someone not disappearing to the toilet
 
This is quite interesting as well.
A timeline of all atomic tests since 1945-1998


Chris
 
Blimey! I had no idea how many detonations had taken place. France seems disproportionate for the size of country compared to number of detonations.
 
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