Tracers Rounds (From SimHQ)

[Upthair]

Originally Posted by choctaw111

You two "proof" photos are only showing that the tracer has just lit as it is coming out of the barrel and takes a foot or two to reach full brightness, nothing more.

Taking a foot or two to reach full brightness? Maybe, and maybe not.

Take a look at the tracers after they reach full brightness. Their width is the same down the length of the trace.

Take a look:



If you still say this one bullet has just lit out there, then the "just lit" part is even brighter.

If it is argued that distance is the reason why the nearer end is brighter than the farther end, then this reasoning applies to all vidoes where each tracer segment has homogeneous brightness and width from beginnnig to end. In other words, when a vidoe show that the tracer segments have the same brightness and width down their length, that is because "distance" intervened, and actually they are not homogeneous.

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Originally Posted by Upthair

Take a look:

If you still say this one bullet has just lit out there, then the "just lit" part is even brighter. ~

You do realise that the "lit part" is the only part making that light, right? It's not a glowing tube with a burning end, it's an illusion created by your eye and brain.

Now this is where the camera and eye start to differ, and where compression, framerate and lens quality fall short.

The tracers in Cliffs of Dover are accurate. This is coming from the people who made them, and the people who have actually seen and fired real tracers in real life!

[Novotny]

*idiot hat put on*

If it ain't on youtube it ain't real.

[Upthair]

Originally Posted by speculum jockey

You do realise that the "lit part" is the only part making that light, right? It's not a glowing tube with a burning end, it's an illusion created by your eye and brain.

Now this is where the camera and eye start to differ, and where compression, framerate and lens quality fall short.

What you said here had already been implied or emphasized in my first post in this thread.