Took the grandkids to a Halloween function last night at a local science museum. The museum had set up a trebuchet and was firing pumkins downrange.
The widest lens I had with me was an 18mm and the pumkin's trajectory took it out of frame. Shooting 8 frames a second, I caught the launch, two shots downrange, and the final shot was shortly before impact. Had I been thinking I would have shot .jpg fine alone - I normally shoot .nef + .jpg and that slows down the write time to the card. I ran the buffer out and probably could have gotten one or two more frames recorded had I dumped the .nef option. I wasn't prepared for the height they got out that thing! There are several shots between the first one and third one posted here that the punkin' is totally missing from the frame. On the final frame posted you can just make out the pumkin to the left of the middle lamp post.
It was raining, so I only took one series of shots - their velocity and range was impressive, but their rounds-per-minute sucked :laugh:.
I downsized 'em to fit the forum, so the resolution is poor - but man, I wanted to start building a punkin' shooter when I saw that first launch. :rofl:
Nikon D300, 18-135 Nikon lens.