Nutty Buddy

Spent a long time trying to get this one.

 

It is a fast marble hitting an iced treat.

 

For instance, after the first two shots, I realized that I could get a better shot by giving the ice cream time to warm.

 

So for this shot I set everything up and then waited for fifteen minutes for things to get softer.

 

The first round didn't trigger. Massive booger time.

 

High speed photography as I have experienced it is a lot about finding a good trigger and then loosing it.

 

I spent a few weeks getting perfect triggering from my old laser/schmitt trigger set-up. Then it all went away and I ended up with garage filled with sugar mess and no pictures.

 

So I once again spent time trying to deal with microphonics.

 

Crap. I am tired of vibration sensitive triggers.

 

One again, I am trying another idea. My "old" set-up used a laser pointer as a source. I am pretty sure that due to the small size of the laser on the detector, it is very sensitive to movement.

 

So I am trying to use a LED with a fairly tight beam. It seams to be less sensitive to wacking the set-up. And I did get some pictures.

 

But I have to say that all my triggering set-up so far are just works in progress and can fail at any time.

 

And our first tomatoes are coming up ripe.

 

Yes, good. My wife and I have been grafting tomatoes to get heirloom varieties to yield. the first to give a red tomato was a hybrid, but the heirlooms, both grafted and not are looking good.

 

Cheers.

Done