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Loading ...The first practical application of high-speed photography was Eadward Muybridge’s 1878 investigation into whether horses’ feet were actually all off the ground at once during a trot.
![Sequence of a race horse galloping [1887]](http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/muybridge_race_horse_gallop.jpg)
Photographer: Eadward Muybridge, first published in 1887.
Source: wikipedia.org
Not a trot… gallop.
It is actually a gallop, not a trot.
IThe horse is galloping, not trotting. The pictures arose as a result of a debate at the time as to whether all four of a horses feet left the ground together when it was galloping, something proposed as “Unsupported transit”. Muybridge was hired by a proponent of the argument in favour of unsupported transit to provide proof. He did this by using a series of 24 camera’s equiped with trip wires to open the shutters triggered by the horses hooves as it pased in front of them.
Actually, Muybridge only realised after the process that there is a point where the horses’ feet are off the ground. Also the Bullet-time effect, famous from The Matrix movie when the camera circles around a person and time freezes, is taken from Muybridge’s idea. Simply puting cameras around a moving object. But the technology gave the movie’s creators much moore freedom.
The experiment which had leaded to invention of movie at the end.