Warning, the images in this post will require those really cool red/blue cinema 3D glasses from the 60s. If you don't have any, you can tape a couple of quality street wrappers to your regular glasses :)
So the first edition configuration would move to the right place, stop, trigger the camera and flash for each shot. This meant it could only do about a shot every 2 seconds with a reasonable set of strobes. You could possibly push 1 shot per second, but you'd probably end up with a dead shot somewhere in the pack. Basically it would take about 50 seconds to do a complete run. Don't get me wrong it worked well, but with a human who has to be as still as possible, this was a bit of a nightmare. Here are a couple of shots I managed to get with it.
Glasses on :) Click for a bigger version.
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So version 2 of the setup involves a whole load of differences, not just on the rig. Basically though, the rig moves continuously though the shots (so you need a high shutter speed to reduce blur), and uses continuous lighting (so no flash recycle). A whopping 2.5 KW of light in fact. That gave me f/8 at 1/500th, and a run time of 2.25 seconds. Almost anyone can sit still for that. More realistically I reckon I can probably get an artistic shot in 6 seconds.
Glasses on. Here is my test shot. Yep, it's messy, but it has real depth... take that as you will.
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