Didn't have time to get this up yesterday.
In my usual holiday tradition, there was cannon fire after the meal yeterday. Sadly, there was not a single kid watching this time. Some have moved, the others are getting older and were doing other things. It's rare that I have no spectators, but it happens.
I mounted the 1/4-scale Napoleon tube on the marsilly carriage for this shoot.
The vidoes and stills are not up to my usual standards, but that's my fault. I had made some changes to the camera settings to shoot in low light. This was not good for action shots. I did this before I went into the hospital and forgot about it.
But here goes. Here are some smoke & fire stills, they are blurry because of the recoil and the slow shutter...
The breaching rope works really well now that I have the all of the eyes on the cheeks. This is an animated gun even with 500gr salute loads...
And finally the videos...
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