"The time machine" for water drop photography

Hi

I'm thinking of buying the kit necessary to take some water drop photography and the Mumford "time machine" looks pretty versatile. It's a

fairly significant cost so was wondering if anybody on here has had any experience of it?

Grateful for any comments/advice

Thanks

Chris

<p>Wait, you can buy these? In all seriousness many people build their own on things like this, and you're likely to have to do some building just to set it up. A favorite on these from what I hear is an optical trigger, which you can find plans for online with some simple searching. A Nero trigger looks to be a cheaper, less amateur-looking device that does optical triggering which may be what you actually want. That said if you start learning the DIY route for this one application you can adapt it for a number of others: popping baloons, lightning triggering, maybe even bullet shots if you can line up a laser pointer behind something just right.</p>

Hi

I'm thinking of buying the kit necessary to take some water drop photography and the Mumford "time machine" looks pretty versatile. It's a

fairly significant cost so was wondering if anybody on here has had any experience of it?

Grateful for any comments/advice

Thanks

Chris

Check out www.snaperturepro.com Unlike the Time Machine, this unit has the sensors built it, so there is no additional cost for sensors. Also, the sensors can be used individually or in sequence. The real time clock is included, rather than being an ad--on module.

For just water drops I wouldn't even bother with sensor gizmo.

 

You can set up a tap to drip regularly and simply press the shutter when a drip leaves the faucet. With a bit of practise it's pretty easy to catch the point of impact of drop with water surface.

 

About 20 minutes of chimping in such a way got me some pretty interesting droplet shots. And the variation in my reaction time gave differences in droplet timing that made the shots more interesting that just a "crown" or "stalagmite" appearance.

Edited July 9, 2017 by rodeo_joe|1

A dripping tap won't give you results like this.

 

"A dripping tap won't give you results like this."

Yes it will! And very easily.

Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt.

 

Stop plugging your overpriced sensor box please.