#Slomo guys backround series#

While it's still dwarfed by the CalTech camera, in 2021 Gavin got his hands on the Phantom TMX 7510, at that point the fastest Phantom ever made.

And while the camera they used is currently the fastest in the world, CalTech is working on a camera that can film even faster. One experiment at a 'mere' one-hundred billion frames per second makes a femtosecond-long laser pulse bouncing around a mirrored cavity look like a DVD screensaver. It's so fast that the light moves across the screen at a visible pace.

All these are exceeded by orders of magnitude in episode ten of Planet Slow-Mo, in which the duo visits CalTech to film light at ten trillion frames per second.

To quote Dan: 'I'm gonna be sick!' To add to it, the speed at which the tempered glass handle fractures is 451 times faster than you can blink. Five-point-one seconds is enough to generate 1,749,300 individual images of footage that takes nineteen-and-a-half hours to play back.

It's beaten by an impressive 343,000 FPS used to record glass fractures visibly travelling.

At a rate of 170,600 FPS, the camera records footage 6824 times slower than real time, and just four seconds of footage takes seven and a half hours to play back at 25 FPS and takes up 96 gigabytes of space. Amazing how technology marches on, isn't it? Well, times change, and so have their cameras, these ones capable of capturing up to about 170,000f/s.

So, after the 10,000fps video, Gav said that because of how the camera works, they couldn't get any slower footage without doing a lower quality.

Words cannot express the joy on his face.

After many trials, Gav was finally able to complete the Jackie Chan coin challenge.

And they return for 2014's 'rewind' with Gavin getting the Ice Bucket Challenge in slow motion!.

Their part consists of riding on the back of a truck with explosions in the background and them jumping around - in slow motion, of course.

Gav & Dan are in YouTube's 2013 'rewind' video.

Removing the video with Sam Pepper after he made a total ass of himself.

For Battlefield 4's release, EA sponsored the Slow Mo Guys blowing up an entire building.

Freddie Wong and an army of volunteers water-ballooning Gav and Dan.

The video so impressive that it gave Gavin what he needed to earn a permanent visa and fully join Rooster Teeth.

Gavin filming the demolition of two cooling towers.

Just goes to show how much we 'miss' when we blink our eyes. Two minutes worth of footage of drops colliding into each-other took place in just over half a second.

Lloyd the cat, both showing a jump in slow-motion of how she absorbs the shock with her front legs and how she runs - not climbs, runs - up a fence, making it look like she's defying gravity.

He was mostly on the money: it exploded as he said one. Also the fact that the video opened with Gavin counting down when it would explode.

A bit of (rough) science revealed the canister was travelling at over 220+ MPH, about as fast as an exotic super-car.

#Slomo guys backround series#

Given that the series is about slow motion, no doubt things will look awesome at 5000 FPS.