source

I have always been fascinated with high speed photography, especially when it’s a photo of something being shot.

30 Colorful Shots Of High Speed Bullet Photography

In quite a few of these pictures the bullet appears to be a pellet, which means that the gun used would have been an air rifle.  According to wikipedia the average air gun fires the projectile at less than 1000 ft/sec (300 m/s) which means that you wouldn’t need very expensive hardware to capture pictures like this.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 at 11:28 pm and is filed under Guns. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.