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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (8 children)

What a shot! To capture a bullet in a photo? Damn that’s lucky

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (6 children)

More likely it's a single frame from a high speed shutter or high quality video. A lot of cameras I think can be set to do a rapid fire series of shots, you hear the clicks when you see them in movies or the news sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Okay here's the chance for a math wiz to step up, guesstimate the shutter speed, calculate the length of the bullet in the frame, and determine what velocity the projectile was going after impact. Why? I don't know. Science? Perhaps.

[–] derpgon 2 points 4 months ago

Or just use plain old common sense, and realize that 5.56 usually goes about 3000 fps (or 900 m/s).

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