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Hello all.
When I am not being enormously confused by the world of photography I like to build model boats.
I used to build the very precise replicas of old full sized ships, but then realised they weren't actually much fun to "play" with once you'd built then.
So, a couple of friends and I mixed a load of carbon fiber and titanium tubing together with a couple of minature jet engines and cloned the design of a sharks skin cell, and came up with a set of boats that that we have clocked with a speedgun topping out around 400mph. We run them on a tethered line of 100 foot, so they just spin in a circle. They're loud and noisy and have the ability to burst into flames rather dramatically, which I find a lot more fun - in a "boys toys" sort of way.
However, it would be good if I could get some pictures of them actually going. Right now I get a blur.
I am just setting out to buy a camera kit - I have got my friends Canon 450d currently - and even set at 1/1000 of a second, it's still just a blur. 400mph is nearly 7" of movement in 1/1000th of a second.
Also - the boat appears at entirely random points in the images, which means I have to zoom out to get the full 200 foot diameter circle in the frame.
Can anyone offer any advice on how I might go about getting some better pictures? As I say, I am just about to buy into DLSR's - next week or so - and if there are specific bodies I shlould be looking for, I'll take this into account.
Also - is there anyway I can get the camera within an inch of so of the waterline and keep it safe and dry? I really could do with seeing how much of the hull and rudder is in the water so I can get feedback for the next design - which obviously needs to go a lot faster.
Why go faster? Just because....
When I am not being enormously confused by the world of photography I like to build model boats.
I used to build the very precise replicas of old full sized ships, but then realised they weren't actually much fun to "play" with once you'd built then.
So, a couple of friends and I mixed a load of carbon fiber and titanium tubing together with a couple of minature jet engines and cloned the design of a sharks skin cell, and came up with a set of boats that that we have clocked with a speedgun topping out around 400mph. We run them on a tethered line of 100 foot, so they just spin in a circle. They're loud and noisy and have the ability to burst into flames rather dramatically, which I find a lot more fun - in a "boys toys" sort of way.
However, it would be good if I could get some pictures of them actually going. Right now I get a blur.
I am just setting out to buy a camera kit - I have got my friends Canon 450d currently - and even set at 1/1000 of a second, it's still just a blur. 400mph is nearly 7" of movement in 1/1000th of a second.
Also - the boat appears at entirely random points in the images, which means I have to zoom out to get the full 200 foot diameter circle in the frame.
Can anyone offer any advice on how I might go about getting some better pictures? As I say, I am just about to buy into DLSR's - next week or so - and if there are specific bodies I shlould be looking for, I'll take this into account.
Also - is there anyway I can get the camera within an inch of so of the waterline and keep it safe and dry? I really could do with seeing how much of the hull and rudder is in the water so I can get feedback for the next design - which obviously needs to go a lot faster.
Why go faster? Just because....