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Project 15.2 - HIGH SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY - G. L, Felt
KARLY FIREBALL GROWTH

The observations to be made on themes... high speed photography, were
fireball growth for the first 150 microseconds.

The cameras used were two Node)

100 streak cameras at 500 rps, two at 1,000 rps, two at 4,000 rpe, and two fram,

ing cameras,

The two fastest streak cameras and the framing camera with 16

Shakes per frome used HPS film.

All other cameras were leaded with the Kastuan

color film, and the calor frame camera wrote at 30 shakes per frame.

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black and white framing camera had the three aided model 8 mirrer that gives 15
shakes per fram.

Al) cameras had & inch lenses on thee except for the two

very alow streak camsras which used 40 inch lenses,

Because of the elevation of

the tower, the horisontal camera slits projected on the cab to an angie abet
two degrees from horisontal,

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Developments for the HPS fila were in the Berry developer, BD7B, for 15
minutes.

The color film was developed for 5 minutes in D-76, axnept for the frem

camera film which was pushed hard to get all the sensitivity possible with 2

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minute D-76 development.

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