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This is what a gun exploding at 187,000 frames per second looks like

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We’re big fans of The Slow Mo Guys here on DIYP, and never more so than when they’re doing something destructive. In what seems to be a trend with Gav and Dan in recent months, this video is another collaboration. You might remember they recently did a video with Electroboom that was quite… shocking (sorry!). Well, now they’ve gotten together with Scott from the YouTube channel Kentucky Ballistics for another.

If the name wasn’t a big clue, Scott’s channel is about guns, particularly big guns. He often makes the guns explode, too. On purpose, that is. Whenever he posts a video containing any kind of slow motion – or The Slow Mo Guys post anything involving weaponry or explosions – there are inevitable comments below the video saying that they should collaborate. So, they finally did.

Slowing down everyday activities to make one second last for one hour

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The Slow Mo Guys are back again, slowing down time. This time, it’s part 2 of something the boys did in 2021. Shooting at 90,000 frames per second and playing back at 25fps, they’re able to slow down time to 1/3,600th of its regular speed. This means that one second of real-time is able to be slowed down to precisely one hour. This presents a very unique view of the world around us and the events that happen in it.

Obviously, this concept proved popular last time they did it, so they’ve done it again. Slowing incredibly fast events down by 3600 times makes it very easy to see exactly what’s happening. Sure, 90,000fps isn’t quite fast enough to capture things like electricity arcing from a Tesla coil, but it’s still pretty fast and shows some everyday events in a whole new light.

Slow Mo Guys push it to the extreme with glass explosions at over 343,000fps

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In the photography world, we’re used to the megapixel and high ISO races. When it comes to video, the race seems to be about frames per second. With frame rates getting ever faster, Vision Research are usually in the lead with their Phantom cameras.

It’s just a regular day at the office for the Slow Mo Guys, making things explode. In this case, Pyrex glass. Using a Phantom V2511, they begin filming at 28,000fps. They soon realised they weren’t anywhere near fast enough and knocked it up to an insane 343,915fps.

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