Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/File:Tumbler Snapper rope tricks.jpg

Tumbler Snapper rope tricks

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 28 Jun 2011 at 01:22:38 (UTC)

Nuclear detonation from the "Tumbler Snapper" test series showing fireball and "rope tricks" by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Reason: Fails criterion 2; does not meet minimum resolution. I'm sure a higher resolution version exists somewhere. Uploader is now blocked.
Articles this image appears in: High speed photography, List of nuclear weapons tests of the United States, Operation Tumbler-Snapper, Rapatronic camera, Rope trick effect
Previous nomination/s: Original FPC in 2005
Nominator: Seegoon (talk)

Delist — Seegoon (talk) 01:22, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep A photograph of this type isn't just a standard photograph, and reproduction of these events is all but impossible. Finding a higher resolution scan of this image may not be feasible as well, so just saying it may exist isn't enough to justify desisting this historic image. And as a final note this is only a small fraction below the minimum size requirements, something that can easily be justified even today for a nomination of a very rare historic image. — raeky t 15:30, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Raeky. --Elekhh (talk) 21:02, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Raeky. Half an hour search did not yield higher resolution picture. At least I manged to replace the file with much better one that has no moire and better contrast, which means it can be viewed and printed in higher resolution than before. Jakuzem (talk) 13:51, 17 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Although I think I remember seeing this picture in a book I own that may be a higher resolution. I'll open a D&R if I can find it. Jujutacular ^talk 15:48, 18 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I highly doubt a better version exists; the exposure here is on the order of ~~fractions of a microsecond~~ three microseconds.-RunningOnBrains^(talk) 06:44, 19 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep There is certainly no better image available. This photograph was in Harold Edgerton’s book, Moments of Vision, and I spoke to him about this and another image from that series some years before his death. It was shot with his ten-million-FPS Raptronic camera, as I recall, though it might have been the 1-million FPS earlier version. Greg L (talk) 23:45, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Kept --Makeemlighter (talk) 01:05, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]