High Speed Photography: Capturing car races with the Distacam
Posted on July 10, 2007
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Imagine you get free tickets to this amazing NASCAR car race show and although you’re jumping crazy with excitement in your seats in the stadium, you can’t but sincerely wish you could get the ultimate stills to show your family at home, who were not so lucky with the free tickets as you were.
If you’ve been in a situation like the one mentioned above, the good news is that you might never encounter one again (not free tickets, I mean the still-photo worries), coz a guy named Rick Graves seem to now have something that can truly capture that breathtaking or breaking moment in the most exact way! Well, he can’t stop time for sure, but what he can do for you is offer you (for a price of course), his Distacam (which is what he calls it right now) that can capture stills of speeding cars at just the right moment.
His modified Hasselblad (the Distacam) has been made adding a high-velocity motor, locking the shutter open, and inserting a metal plate with a laser-cut slit. Whenever you trigger the motor, the film zips past the slit at up to 1,400 rpm, capturing stills of the speeding cars.
So get set for some adrenaline pumping action and hey, don’t wait for freebies, coz you and I may not always be that lucky but all’s worth a good game right? Atta say, boy? (NiRa)
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