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General => Creative Media => Topic started by: Pilot Zx on January 29, 2015, 12:56:51 pm

Title: Lightning Storms
Post by: Pilot Zx on January 29, 2015, 12:56:51 pm
So it was late last night and Perth was having a rather large lightning storm. So, I got up and filmed it with my Phone and then screenshotted some of the best parts. These photos being the result.

(http://i58.tinypic.com/2wqwjmr.png)

(http://i62.tinypic.com/rieuit.jpg)

(http://i58.tinypic.com/2nbun7m.png)
Title: Re: Lightning Storms
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on January 29, 2015, 01:30:04 pm
What's up with a white rectangle bits?
Title: Re: Lightning Storms
Post by: Retardobot on February 24, 2015, 07:20:16 pm
Did you not know that when lightning strikes, it comes from another dimension. The photo is showing the dimension - a white portal of light.
Title: Re: Lightning Storms
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on February 24, 2015, 07:27:57 pm
That would explain it then.

Title: Re: Lightning Storms
Post by: Bounty Hunter on April 27, 2015, 08:38:19 pm
What's up with a white rectangle bits?


I think the excess brightness is created when the lightning finds ground.

Something like this: Lightning in Super Slow Motion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLWIBrweSU8#ws)
Title: Re: Lightning Storms
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on April 28, 2015, 05:19:39 am
What's up with a white rectangle bits?


I think the excess brightness is created when the lightning finds ground.

Something like this: Lightning in Super Slow Motion ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLWIBrweSU8#ws[/url])


That bit at the end - super awesome.

Title: Re: Lightning Storms
Post by: Bounty Hunter on April 28, 2015, 05:51:55 pm
That bit at the end - super awesome.

That's what I think we're seeing in the partial frames above, then the bright square is the over exposed actual flash we see with the eye.

I'm interested that his camera appears to process columns by rows, not rows by columns, I would have expected the latter to be a more efficient use of memory bandwidth in a time critical system.

We did a robot/radio controlled car last year with a camera on it, but my job was infrared, motors and weapons.

edit: derp, he's holding it portrait, it does do rows by columns.