Incredibly cool video: slow motion lightning
August 7th, 2008
This video is — to steal a phrase from Dave — hewn from raw awesome. Unfortunately the page has no description of what it is shot with but given that a normal lightning strike is all over in well under a second, it must have been capturing at over a thousand frames per second. Smells like an expensive camera to me. God knows how you calculate exposure!
Very pretty. I was told once that lightning has a conductance of something like 3 million volts per metre? I’m too removed from physics to put that into its proper quantity