The sequential trigger fires each camera slightly after the one before it, like a run of dominoes, so the finished shot travels through the slice of time rather than freezing it.
How Fast the Dominoes Fall
The gap between cameras is set in one millisecond steps, from a single millisecond, which reads as a thousand frames per second along the array, up to a second or more between cameras for very slow travel. An industrial microprocessor control unit drives the chain of trigger boxes, each firing six cameras, and the chain scales to any array size we run.
The trigger runs standalone, or linked to our bullet time software for a full visual interface of the firing pattern. The same hardware also fires static and ramped patterns, plus custom patterns built per shot.
When To Use It
Sequential firing suits subjects that should keep moving through the shot: a dancer mid turn, a splash still rising, a car passing through the array. For a shot that changes speed as it travels, see the ramped trigger, and for the whole system, the trigger overview page.
Contact us to talk through a sequential shot.