Canon EOS 5D Mark II
ƒ/11
235 mm
1/3,200
500
I’d like to say that I focused on the beauty of the plume and blasted alfalfa as a planned composition, but my 9 ft. tall rocket leapt off the pad so quickly on this M2245 Imax motor that I could barely keep it in frame. (best viewed large)
WIRED described it as “a black rocket 7 1/2 feet long that looks like a scaled-down cross between a ’60s-vintage X-15 rocket plane and a surface-to-air missile.” Nice. I have since extended it to 9 ft. by adding a video camera bay.
There are a series of photos below, and here is the video from one of the cameras on rocket (the other camera is lost in the field, having been tossed from the airframe at 7,700 ft.)
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