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Explosive high-speed camera footage

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Normally you wouldn’t have time to blink, but high-speed cameras make this amazing compilation of normally lightning-quick events a feast for the eyes


High-speed cameras can achieve very high frame rates (or recording speeds) in order to see incredible slow-motion film. While normal TV runs at about 25 frames per second (fps), the most advanced high-speed cameras can achieve up to 1,000,000 fps. You’ll see eggs go bang, water balloons go pop, and lots of fruit go… everywhere. Not only is this kind of footage very useful for helping us to understand the way the molecules of different materials hold together, it can also be really useful for such scientific disciplines as ballistics.

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3 Comments »

  • orcsblood said:

    I remember a company in the 1980’s called Hadlands that made very high speed hi resolution cameras that produced film the effects of bullets
    striking various objects.

  • cjayp33 said:

    wow what a cool video, it is nice to see things in slow motion.

  • Julie Easton said:

    Wow, love this! High-speed stuff is amazing!

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