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Posted on July 16, 2008 - Total Views 47959
Harold Edgerton’s famous high speed picture of a bullet going through an apple. Taken in 1964, it became a very famous image , not least because it was such an unusual photo based on a great achievement in high speed photography. Edgerton, professor at MIT, is also inventor of the strobe flash and a pioneer of stop-action photography. He collaborated with Jacques-Yves Cousteau to experiment photographing some of the deepest seabeds in the world.
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Tags : 1964 • Action Photography • Apple • Harold Edgerton • High Speed Photography • Inventor • Jacques Yves Cousteau • Photo • Pioneer • Stopping Time • Strobe Flash
August 26th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
I took the stroke lab class at MIT, and we replicated this exact experiment. We used a .22 rifle instead of whatever huge-*** bullet that is, but the results are exactly the same, and I have the pictures (which I developed myself) to prove it.
August 27th, 2008 at 12:53 am
Prove or GTFO.
August 27th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
i wonder why they used a casing to hold the apple up
August 27th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Also:
Prove or GTFO.
August 28th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
This photo was taken by a Microsoft user!
August 28th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
That’s a 7.62mm (.308 cal) bullet going through an apple that is for some reason stabbed on to a .50 cal BMG.
August 29th, 2008 at 11:34 am
that made me lol my pants, copycat-tor. like… u know. whatever. why do americans have guns? because they love em
August 29th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
We have guns because of people like you Tor.
Bang, Bang, you’re dead.
August 31st, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Haha! if you turn the photo sideways (clockwise), the apple looks like a fat ballerina. Ohhoho.
More seriously though, FRIGGIN AWESOME!
August 31st, 2008 at 10:24 pm
goddamn, nazz. friggin awesomely spotted!
September 1st, 2008 at 1:21 am
this is your apple…this is your apple on drugs…
September 1st, 2008 at 2:17 pm
[...] Stopping Time [...]
September 1st, 2008 at 9:43 pm
It’s stabbed on a casing for the irony of it, I would suppose, or they didn’t have anything else handy at the time..
September 1st, 2008 at 11:13 pm
yes, irony, coincidence, its all the same….
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:42 pm
it is a 308 casing, not 50 cal bmg. and I’m sure it was simply a matter of convience
September 5th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Photoshop for the win!
September 5th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
yes, irony, coincidence, convenience, photoshop, its all the same…
September 5th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Arm! your becoming a big disapointment to me!
September 5th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
where are you Arm….?
September 8th, 2008 at 10:00 am
why is the entry hole bigger than the exit?
im sure exit wounds are supposed to be vastly larger then the entering area?
September 9th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
how did they stop this in midair like that?
October 8th, 2008 at 12:13 am
that`s so GREAT…
October 8th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
I cant believe people write such vulgar trash here.
October 9th, 2008 at 3:06 am
**# confused Says:
September 8th, 2008 at 10:00 am
why is the entry hole bigger than the exit?
im sure exit wounds are supposed to be vastly larger then the entering area?**
It is at the moment… As soon as the middle of the apple stopped exploding, I imagine it would have caught up to, and overtaken the entry wound, which would only be exacerbated by the backblast, and not the directional force of the bullet.
October 12th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
whaaa?
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:34 pm
This is an amazing picture, and the comments on it make me laugh. (”how did they stop this in midair like that?”)
November 5th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
well really, then is it a trick or what?
November 6th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Id like to know too, you cant just stop a bullet like that, it must be going really fast.
November 7th, 2008 at 5:57 am
The bullet hasnt been stopped as such.
It’s called high speed photography for a reason.
High speed photography is the photography of events that occur too quickly or which last too short a time to be recorded by conventional photographic techniques. * Depending on the event to be recorded, techniques range from use of ultra-short duration flash exposures to making dozens of exposures in a split-second.
November 8th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
yeah, but how do they get the bullet to stop like that?
November 10th, 2008 at 5:30 am
They Don’t get it to stop.
It’s a FRAME
High speed photography takes lots of pictures in quick sucession.
After they developed all the film used, this picture is the one they chose.
November 13th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Oh my god.
I’m a Photojournalism major at UMass Amherst…..
And I am appalled at these comments.
…..I hope you guys aren’t American
XD
November 14th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
yeah but how do they get a picture where its holding still? I thought getting framed was when they trick you for a crime?
November 16th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
High-speed photography is taken with a special camera. It functions like a video camera, but it takes in and records images at a faster rate. A standard video camera captures 24 images (frames) per second. A high-speed camera captures up top 250,000 frames per second. Thusly, when you play the film back slower, you can see every second of the action you filmed. If you watch MythBusters, they use this all the time when bullets, explosions, or anything else fast-moving is involved.
The bullet is not stopped, it was simply photographed by a very fast-acting camera. The image you see is just one frame, one millisecond (or less) of the bullet’s travel through the apple.
Yes, exit wounds are larger, but since this picture is taken before the apple’s exit wound is finished expanding, it’s not larger, YET.
November 17th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
The case is a 30-06, not a 308 Winchester, and was from a previous attempt to make the shot. They did it several times using a Springfield 1903 rifle in 30-06 according to Edgerton. The details of the story are common to most MIT graduates who ever heard Professor Edgerton in person. He was a fun guy and had a lot of interesting stories.
November 20th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
yes but wouldnt someone explain how they stopped time? is this the secret experiments ?
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:12 pm
they didn’t stop time. it’s done with not-so sophisticated cameras as used on Mythbusters. it’s an extension of Edgerton’s invention of the strobe light. A short burst of light in an otherwise darkened room appears to ’stop’ motion, the same way you’d see with a flashing strobe making things appear ‘jittery’ that really are fluid motion. A timed photo with a short burst of light appears to stop time/motion.
December 3rd, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Za Warudo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 4th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
they stop time with light? is this from physics class? i heard the government does secret experiments, is that why they have the room dark?
December 5th, 2008 at 5:06 am
@dottie: Yes. They do secret experiments. And it’s dark inside the chamber because it lies about a mile under the earth’s surface on a secret place. This photo belongs to an evil masterplan to rule the world. I’m glad that this was detected by a brave internet user who… No… NOOOO!!!! Please! AAHHHHRG… AAAAAAAaaaaaa…
December 6th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Yes, the government is experimenting with stopping time.
that is exactly why the government is so ******* inefficient, because they’re not using their ******* time-stopping device to get anything done
and yes, the government would waste its time-stopping device on shooting apples, and they would publish photos of their secret experiments so that everyone could glory int ehri awesomeness
December 7th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
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December 14th, 2008 at 2:45 am
I reckon I could do that with my ole six shooter!
December 16th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Otron: Good 4 u and your class. Would u prefer a chocolate chip or butter cookie?
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December 28th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
A. Bullet is a 147gr fmj .308 cal probably from 30-06 as Jim says
B. Case looks like a 30-06 fired from a sloppy chamber(neck is close to 8mm Mauser dimensions)
C. This apple will end up in tens of thousands of particles just a few frames later(well maybe not a few at that rate) but will almost be entirely vaporized with just a few small pieces remaining.
D. Bullet velocity? Varies, but around 2930 fps.
E. Great Shot!(pun intended)
January 4th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
Cool you can even see the shadow O_O