I have got to give this a try. Back in high school I took a photo of a hammer breaking a light bulb and impressed the heck out of the teacher. I rigged a simple switch (a wire and aluminium foil wraped around the hammer) and ran that to a simple photo strobe. All I had to do was lift tha hammer up, turn the lights off, open the shutter and let the hammer fall. On the first try the hammer was all the way through the bulb when the strobe fired, but on the second run i moved the wire a tad and got a prefect photo. I can still remember that you could see the filiment flexing inside the shell of breaking glass. I think I’ll try this again but this time with my D70.
Ballistics – a photoset on Flickr