Category: high speed

The first ever recording of light’s “sonic boom” was made with the fastest high-speed camera in the world

Dunja Djudjic

  According to theoretical physics, nothing is faster than the speed of light. However, now you can see with your own eyes the first ever recording of a “sonic boom” – created by light. Or scientifically called a photonic Mach cone. It was recorded by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, and they used […]

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Using the Chronos high speed camera with motion capture rig for bullet time effects

John Aldred

We’ve posted about the Chronos high speed camera a couple of times before. We mentioned how it smashed through its kickstarter goal in less than 24 hours. There’s still three weeks left of the campaign, but several units have been sent out for testing and review. One of those is Ben Krasnow, of YouTube’s Applied […]

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Handheld mini explosions at 20,000fps are absolutely beautiful

John Aldred

The humble spud gun, which may or may not be illegal to actually use, own or even make where you live, is a wonderful thing.  Packed into this potato launching barrel of fun, however is a lot of very cool looking science. A month or so ago, Destin Sandlin of YouTube’s Smarter Every Day, built […]

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Handheld mini explosions at 20,000fps are absolutely beautiful

John Aldred

The humble spud gun, which may or may not be illegal to actually use, own or even make where you live, is a wonderful thing.  Packed into this potato launching barrel of fun, however is a lot of very cool looking science. A month or so ago, Destin Sandlin of YouTube’s Smarter Every Day, built […]

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These photos of nuclear explosions were taken one ten-millionth of a second after detonation

Udi Tirosh

If taking photos of speeding bullets is hard, imagine how hard it is to take photos of a nuclear bomb going off. (I mean aside the obvious issue of having yourself and the camera being completely decimated if you were at any reasonable distance). I mean, if you developed a nuclear bomb, you wanna see how […]

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Video: Nikon F3H at 14fps vs. Nikon D3 at 12fps

Eric Reagan

Check out this video that shows off the old-school Nikon F3H cranking out 14fps of film frames compared to the more modern Nikon D3 at 12fps. Note that the new Nikon D5 also shoots at up to 12fps and the Canon 1D X Mark II will shoot up to 14fps (or as high as 16fps in […]