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OT: American Politics

MindzEye said:
Fwiw, that's almost definitely the vapour trail and not the bullet.
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Still an amazing shot. And if it was only vapor it would be in the whole shot. He was snapping multiple shots a second, which you're familiar with I know, however amazing he got it.
 
Habsy said:
Still an amazing shot. And if it was only vapor it would be in the whole shot. He was snapping multiple shots a second, which you're familiar with I know, however amazing he got it.
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It's insanely difficult to catch a bullet in flight. If that's the bullet, it's a one in a million shot. If it's the vapour trail, way, way less so.

I could do the camera nerd math if you want, but even with his shutter at 1/8000th (max of the Sony A1 the photographer was using) and his release at 20-30 fps, you're still super unlikely to see the bullet travel (2800 feet per second is real fast). To my knowledge the only image of a frozen bullet caught on camera is by a Z9 (team yellow baby!) at 120 frames per second with a 1/32000 shutter speed.... but framed at the end of the rifle of a sport shooter in a semi controlled test to try to capture a bullet in flight.

At 120 frames per second, this was the frame that captured the bullet:

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and this was the next frame taken:

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That's a shutter speed 4x the speed of the photo of Trump, with 4-5x the frames per second taken. Also the biathalon rifle fires about 1150 feet per second to an AR's 2800.
 
Which is why it's incredible. It is not a zero chance. Did you watch his interview.

Regardless the result is the same.
 
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