Bullet Time (photos, no footage sorry)

[Cail Young]

Had the pleasure of putting 242 at the start/end of a 360° "bullet-time" style rig today.

http://www.ruffy.com/frameset.htm

It will be interesting to see how closely the Mysterium matches Mark's 59 Canon 10D sensors!

Apologies for the camera phone shots.

 

[Matthew Bennett]

Its so crazy that you did bullet time for a wedding.. (on your homepage top)

 

[Cail Young]

Ruffy.com is Mark Ruff's site; that's his bullet time rig, not ours

 

[michael zaletel]

Cool. How many continuous frames do they shoot with that setup and how many FPS?

-shooter

 

[Cail Young]

In the configuration we had Mark was doing synchronous bulb exposure (i.e. holding all the shutters open) then closing just after a flash trigger (so, 1 frame but from 59 angles). I think his rig also supports sequential firing as well (so 59 consecutive angles at an arbitrary delay). He would be limited by the 10D's shooting rate with regards to FPS, I think it was on the order of 8FPS maybe?

 

[Stephen Williams]

In the configuration we had Mark was doing synchronous bulb exposure (i.e. holding all the shutters open) then closing just after a flash trigger (so, 1 frame but from 59 angles). I think his rig also supports sequential firing as well (so 59 consecutive angles at an arbitrary delay). He would be limited by the 10D's shooting rate with regards to FPS, I think it was on the order of 8FPS maybe?

Hi,

I used a bullet time rig, we were able to ramp from 500 fps to 25 fps, the final camera being a Viper.

Stephen

 

[Cail Young]

Hi,

I used a bullet time rig, we were able to ramp from 500 fps to 25 fps, the final camera being a Viper.

500fps being sequential firing but I'm referring to contiguous firing on each camera. Fun stuff; hopefully I can post the complete sequence when they finish - at 4K for a multiprojector Watchout rig!