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Carmen Taylor Answers Questions
Topic Started: Apr 23 2009, 05:01 AM (14,320 Views)
Cockroach

1 question (lag time)

Can you kindly tell me how many seconds it
took you, to shoot 1 shot to the next one,
on the camera that you were using that day.


Thank You




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This is a sequence of the times and image numbers on the disc I used. One thru seven were on the bus. Time was not set properly, but should indicate lag time between shots. FYI, this is part of the info I sent to NIST. My discs are in a safe, and I can’t use the CD they are copied onto right now. My CD drive is temporarily messed up and these images aren’t on my hard drive.







8 2:53:30

9 2:53:34

10 2:53:40

11 2:53:52

12 2:54:14

13 2:55:04

14 2:56:40

15 3:06:16

16 3:06:42

17 3:07:12

18 3:09:38 Moment of Impact

19 3:09:44 Today Our Nation Saw Evil

20 3:09:50

21 3:09:56

22 3:10:12

23 3:10:58

24 3:14:12

25 Statue of Liberty

26 3:22:36

27 3:22:54

28 3:23:02

29 3:38:02



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I had questioned the time it would take between photos on a Sony Mavica FD series, but there are different ones. I was using one a few years ago and it took about 7 seconds between taking pictures.

Last year I saw a guy with a Mavica and asked him to take some pictures so I could see how long it took between pics. With the Sony Mavica he had it took 4 seconds between pics.

I don't consider this an issue anymore and believe Carmen could have and did take those pictures that day!!!

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Cockroach

OK

Thanks

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Question:

Who is Frank J. DeNicola and why was he listed in the New York Times 9/12/2001 issue, p. A8, as the photographer of Carmen's pics? I searched and found no answers, or mention of his name. Anybody know?

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/us/a-day-of-terror-news-analysis-awaiting-the-aftershocks.html?pagewanted=2

Sorry, no pictures. Just text... at the bottom of the web version it credits photos that aren't in the web version. I saw the paper today at the library on microfilm. Trust me. The pics were Carmen's. One with the plane. Then one with the explosion.
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Scotter

sounds like the AP guy Jeff called who carried this case, wrote an article, but I can't find it, here or anywhere. He brushed it off, as if 'just doing his job'...
Edited by Scotter, Jun 12 2009, 02:53 AM.
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Jeff…

Never heard of this guy, either. Just some error. Like…I was not an auditor in a nursing home—I did not take the picture of the postage stamp—and the satellite picture of my house is somebody else’s house…

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Jeff…



Bill Pitts, my friend at NIST, sent me this note to me last month after we talked. He’s always been easy to talk with and helpful.



Carmen:

I took a look at a couple of the videos we have of the plane approaching WTC 2. It is clear that the plane was not on a straight course perpendicular to the south face of WTC 2 for very long. It had approached more from the southwest (using nomenclature with regard to towers and not true direction) flying across the Hudson. It made a large curve as it approached WTC 2. It was still turning within 10 s of impact. I think you might have been able to see the plane approaching from your left if your view across the Hudson wasn't obscured by the ferry.

Hope this helps.


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Jun 15 2009, 03:04 PM
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Jeff…

Never heard of this guy, either. Just some error. Like…I was not an auditor in a nursing home—I did not take the picture of the postage stamp—and the satellite picture of my house is somebody else’s house…

Tgc c
Mistakes are forgivable. Especially during the journalistic nightmare of 9/11. It's a shame that image sources can get so easily screwed up. That's something we need to rectify... if only in the long run by studious collecting...

Frank J. DeNicola. Weird.






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I wonder if Carmen's ever watched the Hezarkhani video and listened out for her own voice?
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YOUROOM101

I would like to know what shutter speed, aperture and iso was used to freeze a plane going 5oo mph while bobbing up and down on a ferry, because I've taken many pictures but that's some lucky picture? I wish I could have asked that question before but I've just found this thread and missed the boat sort of speak. Maybe it is possible but I have done air show photography and anything flying fast will take a tripod and some luck to get a plane frozen in mid air like that with good camera.
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Exactly what I was thinking about YOUROOM! How can it be that a plane going over 500 mph could be captured crystal clear including the surroundings, makes no sense to me; one of the two should get blurred.

Follow the plane with your camera so it stays sharp and the buildings go blurry, OR keep the camera pointed at one point and the plane will get blurred, right?

Or the photographers had real short shutter times and very light sensitive film (the 'iso' thing) OR the pictures are fakes!

The closer to the action you get the more blurred it gets.
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broken sticks
Jun 30 2009, 05:45 AM
I wonder if Carmen's ever watched the Hezarkhani video and listened out for her own voice?
I have watched the Hezarkhani video and never thought to listen for my own voice since I didn't say anything while I was on the ferry until one of the crew came and got me when they were unloading everyone. I didn't even notice that everybody else was leaving. I said a few words of apology to him.

E-mailed Jeff a day or two ago and told him about my recent conversation with Michael Hezarkhani. The best Michael and I can determine, he was about twenty feet directly behind me.

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YOUROOM101

heavyplastic you are right, if its a tracking shot, the background should be blurred, because you are following the object with the camera, the only way to get it sharp would be to use a very fast shutter speed and higher iso making the shot grainy. We need to find out the maximum shutter speed of the camera used because that will help us understand it better.
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Jun 30 2009, 11:42 AM
heavyplastic you are right, if its a tracking shot, the background should be blurred, because you are following the object with the camera, the only way to get it sharp would be to use a very fast shutter speed and higher iso making the shot grainy. We need to find out the maximum shutter speed of the camera used because that will help us understand it better.
Just ask...

first of all, it was not a tracking shot. I correctly assumed that the plane would be positioned directly in front of the South Tower and I set up the shot accordingly. I assumed, incorrectly, that the plane would fly past the Tower, perhaps circling it, not bank and fly into it.

Second, finding out the maximum shutter speed of the camera wouldn't make much difference if I weren't using the maximum shutter speed.

I'll check the CD which I transferred my images onto and see what the properties of the image are.

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