Richard Schaetzl wrote:
> > [FE] I seem to remember reading about how one of those shots underneath
> > a ski jumper was taken. A camera with drive was placed in the correct
> > position, activated by the skier breaking an IR beam. The thing
> > fired on continuous as the skier came over. They smashed 3
> > wonderbricks before they got the shot.
> [snip] An OM-1 with motor and the mirror switched up would be ok.
Assume a 2m field of view, a 5fps motor drive, and an acceptable
placement error in the frame of 10%. Then the skier can be going
no faster than 2m/s or 7.2 km/h. With a 10fps Canon, 14.4 km/h. Even
I can ski faster than that... well, it was a ski jumper landing,
so what would that be? 80km/h? I think they shot lots of rolls of
film and hoped for the best.
Maybe you could improve your chances by modifying a drive to go
much faster (no faster than 60fps though). There's just a whole
lot more street cred in finishing the day with the tangled
wreckage of 3 EOSs.
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