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I found this at the escapist here.
Just thought I would share it because it looks awesome. I've seen bullets in slow motion before due to watching things like mythbusters but this is just something else.
Direct youtube video can be seen here.
http://www.youtube.com/user/mattrece#p/a/u/0/QfDoQwIAaXg
Awesome.
One would think that the camera recording at 1,000,000 frames per second would be a little more talked about if it can indeed film at that rate. Does anyone know about the tech?
Oooh swanky
Any info on the equipment used? I'd have to agree with the hyperbole supposition from the escapist, using normal film equipment you'd need about 12 hours worth of film and I suspect the machinery would have to be running at near supersonic speed. Could film even survive that?
All that said, thats still fucking awesome
Information about the camera used is on the site where the video originated.
Aaahhh low res greyscale digital, that explains a lot. When it said film I presumed it meant physical film
Post edited October 13, 2009 by Aliasalpha
Is he actually shooting BB pellets to intersect the bullets in-flight at one point? Must be an awesomely precise setup.
Things like this make me want to make a ton of money and buy a high speed camera.
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Wishbone: Is he actually shooting BB pellets to intersect the bullets in-flight at one point? Must be an awesomely precise setup.

I assume its more a buck shot then single pellets and he just did it a load of times until he had the hits he liked. I don't see how it could really work any other way, at least not without him spending years trying to get that fluke shot.
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michaelleung: Things like this make me want to make a ton of money and buy a high speed camera.

I'd be content without the camera, honestly.
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michaelleung: Things like this make me want to make a ton of money and buy a high speed camera.
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Miaghstir: I'd be content without the camera, honestly.

Well, I'm a very materialistic person.
Beautiful.
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stereod: Beautiful.

That's an eerie response to it!
I think fascinating is more appropriate IMHO.
Pretty cool. How in the hell did he manage to film a bullet flying in mid air and then have some sort of globs crashing into it? Were the globs paint?
The music reminded me of Psychonauts, the part where Raz was at the brazilian teacher's dance party TK ball lesson.
Pretty cool video, the physics geek in me was quite entranced by it. I was actually surprised by how much most of the bullets fragmented on impact; in many shots the metal of the bullet seemed to behave more like a liquid than a solid, but I guess with the kinds of velocities involved that's not too surprising.
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El_Caz: Pretty cool. How in the hell did he manage to film a bullet flying in mid air and then have some sort of globs crashing into it? Were the globs paint?
The music reminded me of Psychonauts, the part where Raz was at the brazilian teacher's dance party TK ball lesson.

Actually, most ballistics tests use blocks of thickened gelatin, so that's probably what that was.