Oldshooter60
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No... It wasn't luck. I used an app called movie2image... to extract this image of shooting the tokarev m57 7.62x25 fire breathing dragon... from a video I took
Picture at just the right time... Post yours!
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campingnights
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Cool!
madmo44mag
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Got to love that 7.62x25 round.
One heck of a pop and a nice fireball to match.
One heck of a pop and a nice fireball to match.
Oldshooter60
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That is awesome! I have a 91/30 mosin and will have to see if I get same sort of blast... I don't recall it being that way
Oldshooter60 said:
The 91/30 has a much longer barrel, so I don’t think you will get as much muzzle flash out of it, but you should get some. I shot this video late in the day, but the M38 will put out some muzzle flash in the middle of the day. I hadn’t noticed it before, but I just noticed that it lit up my left forearm.
I won't claim I know how digital works, and I only think I know how video works, but I do know how film works, and you were lucky to get a good shot of the flash.
A lot of the time, the muzzle flash is "between the frames".
Hollywood ran into this problem when they started trying to make gunfire more "realistic" for the movie "The Longest Day". The story is that they planed on using footage of an MG 42 firing, but when they filmed one, only half of the muzzle flash showed up in the film. The rest was between the frames, due to the combination of the guns high cyclic rate, and the frame rate of the film. They wound up resorting to special effect to make it look "right" (the way your eye would see it).
or so I heard.
Armed_Chicagoan
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The Mosin carbine living up to it's reputation of producing fireballs the size of the sun lol.
44 AMP said:
My video cam shoots at 30 fps, so I would think it would always get the muzzle flash, but I was surprised that it only lasted for one frame. I expected to have 3 to 5 frames to choose from.
I’d love to have one of todays high speed cameras, but the cost and hard drive space would be too much for me. They can slow bullets down, and that’s pretty awesome to watch.
IIRC, 16mm movie film was run at 24frames per second. Not sure why this became the standard, probably due to the camers and film tech of the era.
Look at footage from WW I, or the 20s (and some later) action is often too fast, or too slow to match reality. This is because the cameras were hand cranked, and it depended on the skill, (and how tired they were) of the camera man to film things at the proper speed. Motorized cameras fixed this, but didn't come along until later.
I'm sure there's some formula (needing data I don't have) that lets you calculate the actual time amount of each frame, and what is lost between the frames. The faster the frame rate, the less time lost.
What I meant by getting lucky with the video is that you do have one good frame with the flash "centered" in it. Had the timing been just a tiny bit different, and you might have had the flash "centered" inbetween the frames.
When this happens you may see part of the flash in both frames on either side, but you don't see the whole thing.
Look at footage from WW I, or the 20s (and some later) action is often too fast, or too slow to match reality. This is because the cameras were hand cranked, and it depended on the skill, (and how tired they were) of the camera man to film things at the proper speed. Motorized cameras fixed this, but didn't come along until later.
I'm sure there's some formula (needing data I don't have) that lets you calculate the actual time amount of each frame, and what is lost between the frames. The faster the frame rate, the less time lost.
What I meant by getting lucky with the video is that you do have one good frame with the flash "centered" in it. Had the timing been just a tiny bit different, and you might have had the flash "centered" inbetween the frames.
When this happens you may see part of the flash in both frames on either side, but you don't see the whole thing.
I videoed 5 shots and all 5 shots had a ton of muzzle blast in the video, I just chose the one with the most flash. 4 were equal to what you see here, but the 5th shot only produced about half the muzzle flash. I didn’t look at that one frame by frame. Film cameras have come a very long way from WW I. Phones have more video capability than those old crank video cameras did.
I’ve tried stuff like this with still cameras by setting one up on a tripod and letting her rip at 11 fps. I wasn’t trying for muzzle flash, but trying to catch the action open and the case just coming out of the breech. Very hard to do, and I actually caught a touch of muzzle flash in bright daylight from an AR once, and that had a flash suppresser on it too.
I’ve tried stuff like this with still cameras by setting one up on a tripod and letting her rip at 11 fps. I wasn’t trying for muzzle flash, but trying to catch the action open and the case just coming out of the breech. Very hard to do, and I actually caught a touch of muzzle flash in bright daylight from an AR once, and that had a flash suppresser on it too.
Theohazard
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Me testing out my co-worker's new trigger (that's why there's no target set up -- we just popped over to the range for a second). The muzzle device is a Surefire brake.
MattShlock
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Those are nifty photos. I have always sorta wanted a Tokarev -- pound for bullet pound the coolest cartridge around and The Russian 1911 itself is so the ugly duckling. Maybe someday...
Hey RickyRick, do you wear nailpolish on your trigger finger to protect it in the guard or as a warning to others you're in "fire" mode?
Hey RickyRick, do you wear nailpolish on your trigger finger to protect it in the guard or as a warning to others you're in "fire" mode?
OkieCruffler
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My lovely wife disproving the myth that women can not shoot a 357 snubby.
Evan Thomas
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Of course women can shoot them -- they're so light!