that is a photo of the bullet, good lord people. When an object is traveling much faster than the shutter speed (or framerate) of the camera, it leaves streaks.92Ag95 said:I think most of what is seen in that photo is biological material and not necessarily all bullet contrail.benchmark said:
On the question of capturing the actual bullet on camera. Yes, very possible. Assuming a 1/1000 sec camera shutter speed (common for action photos) and a bullet traveling at 2,500 fps (55 gr bullet with 16" AR barrel at 125 yds) .. the captured image of the bullet trail would be 2.5 feet long. About what we saw.
As an extreme example, if you took a photo with a 5 second exposure and walked across the frame, your body would leave a streak. This is the same thing, except like what was already explained above.