Needs Better lighting - Can't see a dammed thing!

Edit: Actually yes, My monitor is great. And yes, I understand that the darkened image is part of the high speed process. But they know that as well, and I just figured that photographing something so particular as tiny water droplets, they could have tried using either solid white or solid black backgrounds and better lighting to accentuate the bubbles and the popping.

If they are going to make a video with all the equipment, then set your space up properly. These guys do slo-mo all the time. I just felt they could take the time to do it right.

Does this video prove that water tension is faster than a bullet (or at least a thrown bullet?)

It does prove that bubbles pop really quickly I thought it was interesting to compare the soap bubbles to bursting balloons from *related=http://videosift.com/video/Hydrogen-Explosions-Slow-Motion-Periodic-Table-of-Videos

With some effort you could calculate whether the collapse would still be faster than a bullet fired from a gun, my thought is that it probably wouldn't be since the slowly falling one made it almost half way down before the collapse was complete.

Hydrogen Explosions (Slow Motion) - Periodic Table of Videos has been added as a related post - related requested by oritteropo.

Moving this video to oritteropo's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

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Adding video to channels (Water) - requested by ant.

> Needs Better lighting - Can't see a dammed thing!

that was my thought too... as an astro-photographer, our images start out damn near jet black.... there is a TON of information in these 18,000 fps runs that they simply aren't making easy to access... too bad

plus it was frustrating how when it got to the most exciting part, the collision of the expanding circular wave on the far side, they cut it just about every time