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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blade Canyon" data-source="post: 179073" data-attributes="member: 15302">The story behind the first bullet-in-flight photo is very interesting.  The man was stumped about how to operate the shutter fast enough and how to stop the film for each shot in a rapid series.  In other words, he wanted a super-fast movie camera.  He finally realized that if the flash was short enough to freeze the bullet in flight, then he didn't even need a shutter, and the film could move continuously as the strobe flashed repeatedly for 1/20,000th of a second, because each flash also "froze" a single image onto the moving film stock.</blockquote>