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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Also slow-motion camera footage of something being destroyed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Not sure if unaware or trying to trap pedants

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

High speed refers to the shutter speed in a camera -- how quickly it can take frames. Slow motion footage is taken in a high speed camera. It's just a weird quirk of language.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Stupidly enough, I actually know this, and know it very well :(

I just took it as:
High speed | camera footage
i.e. camera footage, playing at high speed.

Instead of:
High speed camera | footage i.e. footage from a high speed camera

I am ashamed.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The high-speed camera is how you get slow motion footage.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

That's a very good point - one I perhaps wish I'd realised myself 20 minutes ago.

[Edit] People also like sped-up footage of things being destroyed though, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The problem is it must go well with a Benny Hill song, because if it's fast and long enough, a Benny Hill song will play inside your head.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

"Yakety Sax" (the Benny Hill song) pretty much goes with any sped up footage, so I think this problem solves itself :)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Nay! Sped up footage of massive things being assembled.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Love a bit of time-lapse construction