Electronic Guidebook for High-Speed Flash Photography
revised 12-00
Table of Contents
Title
Page
Introduction
Essential Components of
a High-Speed Flash Photography System
Section I. Electronic Flash and Sound Triggers
Activity
1. Getting acquainted with the flash unit
Activity 2. Controlling
flash duration
Activity 3. Measuring
flash duration
Activity 4. Triggering
the flash unit with sound
Section II. Photographic Techniques
Activity
5. Photographing bursting balloons
Activity 6. Photographing
the smash of a tennis ball or racquetball
Activity 7. Using
a contact trigger to capture a football kick
Activity 8. Photographing
waveforms on an elastic band
Section III. Photogate Triggers and Delay Units
Activity
9. Using an interrupter photogate to
observe a plucked cord
Activity 10.
Capturing vertical jumps with a photogate
Activity 11.
Using an electronic delay with a contact trigger
Activity 12.
Plucked cords and rubber bands
Activity 13.
Photographing splashes
Activity 14.
Using an auxiliary flash unit
Section IV. Measuring High Speeds and Small Time Intervals
Activity
15. Speed of sound
Activity 16.
Speed of a balloon rip
Appendix
A. Complete equipment list for the activities
Appendix B. Flash
accessories
Appendix C. Photographic
basics
Appendix D. Using
Polaroid cameras
Appendix E. Making
a contact trigger
Appendix F. Problems
in high-speed measurement
A
Tutorial in High-Speed Photography with Electronic Flash
Flash Photograph
with a Pinhole Camera
Using the Vivitar
283's Light Sensor Socket
Data sheet for flash photography (pdf
or rtf)


