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Earnestly asking someone to explain the physics of capturing an image of such a bullet streak under the observable conditions in which this photo was taken.

The photographer has said he was shooting with a shutter speed of 1/8000 second. He was as close as 5-10 feet from Trump. My understanding is that the muzzle velocity of an AR-15 round is up to 3,300 ft/s (1,006 m/s).

There’s some people doing napkin math in here:

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Thanks! I was posing some queries to ChatGPT, and it was quite insistent the streak is more likely an aircraft contrail than a bullet trajectory, based on its own analysis. Then again, I find ChatGPT often struggles with basic counting 😆

There’s some people doing napkin math in here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SonyAlpha/s/oXnzzhImcy

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Thanks for the insight, Nima!

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As a photographer, I say it is impossible to capture such a shot, but with fast frame rate cameras in video mode it can be possible to slow down the record and take screen shot from that video. More that 240fps needed for such a capture, maybe 1000fps can slow down enough the scene to capture the bullet👌🏻