Considering that this was the first bullet fired, photographer didn’t have any advance notice to start capturing burst photos, but they did - very lucky capture!
A video camera shooting at standard shutter speeds (ie if being used by a professional) would likely not show the bullet. If shooting 60fps for eg so 1/120 id guess the bullet wouldn’t show up. Quick Google suggests typical 3000km/h out the muzzle which would have a 7m motion blur trail? Not sure how fast and to what speed a bullet slows in air
That’s shooting in burst mode, it shoots separate photos rather than short videos. In sports you typically use short shutter speeds to freeze the action. If you would stitch these photos together into a video, the results would look jittery because there’s no motion blur.
Video mode also doesn't use the whole sensor on most cameras because of the differing aspect ratio of film and photography and also rarely stores the raw for each frame, you'd have like 150MB-250MB per frame for that. Burst stores each individual image at full quality.
This article is written in such a weird way, as if the assassin was so sneaky that nobody heard the sound of the gunshot or the fact that trump got injured and the only evidence of the assassination attempt is a crappy image of the bullet which you're supposed to read like some tea leaves.
He got hit by a bullet and started bleeding. Why isn't the article about that?
The article was saying that this was likely the first shot. Standard bullets fired from an unsuppressed AR-15 travel faster than sound. No one in the crowd would have heard anything until about 70ms later (shooter about 125 yards away, assuming standard 62gr cartridge). Trump would have heard the crack of the bullet flying past him and maybe a few others close by but the rest of the crowd would have heard nothing. Based on how close that streak is to Trump, I doubt the photographer would have heard anything at the point the first photo was taken. Very rare to capture a bullet on camera when you don't even know it's coming.
Interestingly, Trump's statement after the incident seems to support this. When I initially read it I thought it was odd that he noted the whizzing first, but it now makes sense.
"I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin"
- A shockwave is going at the speed of sound and the bullet is likely going faster than the speed of sound
- Some "air effects" may linger or occur at slower speeds. The pressure wave can cause humidity to condensate out of the air, for example. Sometimes you can see this in aircraft that are manuevering at speeds lower than Mach 1.0 because they change the pressure drastically around their surface.
EDIT: never mind, should have checked Reddit first. From a (non-political) gun-oriented YouTuber merch. Not linking as it doesn't appear relevant and I'd rather not give him either the benefit or penalty of the publicity either way.
Considering that this was the first bullet fired, photographer didn’t have any advance notice to start capturing burst photos, but they did - very lucky capture!