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  • Strobe Photography: Falling Objects!

    A black background does wonders to improve the presentation:

    Clay slab - 180 ms
    Clay slab – 180 ms

    That’s ISO 800, 1/10 s, f/8, 30 cm manual focus, with the flash about 20 cm away in the right foreground. The Xenon flash has a 1 µF capacitor giving a pulse width of about 100 µs. The LED visible on the lower right flashed 1 ms after the lump broke the laser beam.

    Rather than do science, I shoveled small objects through the aperture…

    Falling LED striplight
    Falling LED striplight
    Falling Sierpinski gasket
    Falling Sierpinski gasket
    Falling clay block
    Falling clay block
    Falling cotton swab
    Falling cotton swab
    Falling AA cell
    Falling AA cell
    Falling SDHC Card
    Falling SDHC Card
    Falling lock washer
    Falling lock washer

    That was fun…