1/16,000th sec? What for?

[LittleMan]

What camera is it??

 

[W.Smith]

Ever see a pic of a plane as it breaks the sound barrier?

Yes, it's one of my rotating desktop pix:

 

[jwkwd]

How cool is that !

 

[Chris SWF]

Hi, 1/16,000 is not necessarily a shutter speed that you might use but it may be a shutter speed you need to attain a certain exposure at a given aperture. For instance it is not unusual to have a shutter speed of 1/60th at F22 at ISO100 on a bright day but if for a shot you wanted to use your lens at its max say f1.4 then the shutter speed for the same exposure would be 1/16000. Even more difficult on some Nikons which have a low ISO of 200. Hope this helps, Chris.

 

[W.Smith]

Hi, 1/16,000 is not necessarily a shutter speed that you might use but it may be a shutter speed you need to attain a certain exposure at a given aperture. For instance it is not unusual to have a shutter speed of 1/60th at F22 at ISO100 on a bright day but if for a shot you wanted to use your lens at its max say f1.4 then the shutter speed for the same exposure would be 1/16000. Even more difficult on some Nikons which have a low ISO of 200. Hope this helps, Chris.

That makes sense. Thanks, Chris.

 

[toastydeath]

Even 1/16000 isn't fast enough for some stop action photography.

1/10,000,000th exposure.
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=456
http://simplethinking.com/home/rapatronic_photographs.htm

 

[DocFrankenstein]

That's a cool sport. Where do I sign up? :lmao:

Even 1/16000 isn't fast enough for some stop action photography.

1/10,000,000th exposure.
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=456
http://simplethinking.com/home/rapatronic_photographs.htm

16 100
11 200
8 400
5.6 800
4 1600
2.8 3200
2 6400
1.4 13000
1.2 16000

Maybe if you like shooting with 85 f/1.2 L wide open outside... or 50/1.2

If you do, you're a nut.

 

[W.Smith]

Even 1/16000 isn't fast enough for some stop action photography.

1/10,000,000th exposure.
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=456
http://simplethinking.com/home/rapatronic_photographs.htm

Nope. Not 1/10,000,000th (of a sec) exposure.
The rapatronic camera has "an exposure time of as little as ten nanoseconds". That is 10 x 1,000,000th of a sec = 1/100,000th of a sec.

 

[toastydeath]

Nope. Not 1/10,000,000th (of a sec) exposure.
The rapatronic camera has "an exposure time of as little as ten nanoseconds". That is 10 x 1,000,000th of a sec = 1/100,000th of a sec.

My apologies - I misread it and was reading how long after the blast the photo was taken.

 

[W.Smith]

My apologies - I misread it and was reading how long after the blast the photo was taken.

No apologies are in order here.
It's pretty quick in any math!