pic: Digital cameras do strange things

[Richard Wallace]

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[Greg Marra]

That is pretty nuts. I have never seen anything like that. Once, at the MoS in Boston, I took a picture of the lightning show and there was the top half lit up and the bottom half dim, but I don't know how you would get something like what you have.

Sweet!

[Richard Wallace]

I'm guessing the time that the camera took to scan from the top to the bottom of the image was just about the same as the time it took the golfer to swing the club down.

[Jonathan Norris]

Originally Posted by Richard

I'm guessing the time that the camera took to scan from the top to the bottom of the image was just about the same as the time it took the golfer to swing the club down.

I understand that, but why are there 2 golf balls?

[Cuog]

the second is actually there for the next person to swing

[DonRotolo]

It's a trick: He is not moving during the photo, he's actually got a club that looks exactly like that. That gap in the club leading to the upper part is held that way by magnetics....

pretty cool.

Don

[geeknerd99]

Something to do with the flash curtain-sync?

Dang, that's pretty weird.

[xzvrw2]

i seen it and said woah

haha
pretty sweet

[anna~marie]

I'd almost say you should buy a new camera... but hey I wonder what other kinds of cool pictures you can get with it!

[Morgan Gillespie]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Norris

I understand that, but why are there 2 golf balls?

Like said before he hasn't swung yet, it is a two sided golf club, after he swings it he plans to swing it all the way around again and hit the other ball in one quick Darth Maul type swoop.

[JulieB]

One good back swing but then again I really don't understand golf. That is pretty cool.

Four!!
look out breaking golf club that is not actually breaking.

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by JulieB

One good back swing but then again I really don't understand golf. That is pretty cool.

Four!!
look out breaking golf club that is not actually breaking.

I have read this 4 times and have laughed out loud all 4 times.
I think I'm going to have to put myself in some kind of time out from JulieB posts.
That might be good.

[s_forbes]

I like how the club is shown in two different positions, but the golfers hands (and the rest of him for that matter) are photographed in one position that does not match either position of the club. It almost seems like someone is trying to trick us...

But after further inspection, it does look like the camera was capturing row by row as the golfer swung. I guess I learned something new today, and that is that digital cameras do work in strange and mysterious ways.

[MrForbes]

if you look close you can see a smear of the head of the club pretty much in line with where it should be for the position the golfer's hands are in. I agree that it's most likely the scan time is about equal to the time it took to move the club from top to bottom, and the picture was taken at just the right time to get both "slow" club positions to show up, but miss most of the "fast" movement of the club at the center of the swing.

[David Brinza]

Maybe the scan is from bottom up and we're looking at the backswing.

If the picture was taken on the downswing, I'd expect the clubhead to be really blurred just before impact with the ball. (In a good golf swing, max clubhead speed should be just as the club is striking the ball).

I think there are some digital cameras where the entire CCD is "gated" for a fixed exposure time and the readout is done after the exposure. You wouldn't see the effect observed in photo - the club would only appear in one portion of the swing, perhaps blurred.