Slow Motion Lightning (Upward Tower Bolts)
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Jason Foster
Glad to see they took down many of the copyright violators and turned off the comments. All that churchie preachiness was just getting annoying.
Very cool, if you haven't seen it yet....got to!
Very cool, if you haven't seen it yet....got to!
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Wes Carter
EF5
Holy crap! That was freaking awesome! Thanks for sharing that. I've seen other slow-mo videos, but that is by far the best one I've ever seen. I've got to Google and find out how they filmed that.
Michael O'Keeffe
Wow impressive stuff! I know Samaras has been doing this for a few years now and he did a talk on it a the chaser con in Denver a few years back. It is a very large (must be hauled with a trailer) and very expensive slow motion camera. I forget how many frames per second but something crazy like 10,000fps or something. Something I remember him noting is all of those little leaders going all while the lightning was occuring up in the cloud base. It is amazing how even at 10,000fps the leaders seem to be flashing at a rate similar to a typical lightning strike in real time.
Sean Ramsey
EF4
I saw the video of it on ABC news last night...absolutely amazing! They plugged a show about "Lightning Chasers" on NatGeo Aug 5th after the story. I will be watching
Nick Nolte
EF2
Wow, the whole 93 seconds of video encompasses just 0.306437 seconds in real time, so slowed down ~300 times, pretty cool stuff.
I believe this year he will be going out with his "Kahuna" camera that is capable of up to 1.5 million frames per second.
Mike Hollingshead
You wonder how something like that can expose enough to show anything at that frame rate. Some serious gain?
