Lighted Nocks (PIC Heavy)

[Carson (CMB)]

I posted this a couple of days ago on the Around the campfire section.  Thought I should post it here too.  My buddy and I were shooting some lighted nocks for fun and decided to snap a couple of pics.  I had never tried them before. Pretty fun to shoot. 

[twisted hickory]

This is a great way to fine tune arrows for your bow! Never thought of that. It is intresting to note the nock of the arrow as it is going through it's shot cycle is dipping down. Any ideas as to why?
Thanks for the picts.
Greg

[Carson (CMB)]

the pics where it looks to go down, are all my buddy Tyler shooting.  The bow is canted a bit, so part of that is simple the arrow flexing side to side, just the angle is funny.  He does shoot 3 fingers under, so maybe the arrow is forced downward a bit by the string.  Hard to say.  But yeah these could be a great tool for arrow tuning.

[Stefan]

How did you capture these pics? What kind of settings/camera?

looks very cool! I should try it sometime

[Stringman]

Simple, take pictures near dark and the shutter speed lengthens to allow the light to fully expose the image resulting in a line of light left instead of a dot. Same way multiple lighting strikes are caught on the same image.

Very cool pics Carson!

[Carson (CMB)]

Thanks Stringman, Stefan.  Yup, slow shutter will capture the light as it travels.  I think I found 1" (1 second) to work pretty well for the lens I had.  It was a Canon rebel camera.    The shooter would draw once the cameraman was ready, and then as the shooter heard the camerman hit the shutter button, he would release.  That worked pretty well.