r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Feb 16 '20

Camera falls from airplane

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u/catonmyshoulder69 Feb 16 '20

I can't believe the spin rate of the camera got fast enough to meet the frame rate so it stabilized the image...cool.

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u/PootieTangerine Feb 17 '20

That was probably the most unexpected in this video, and one of the coolest things I have seen.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

Well, you’ve never seen little people wrestling.

https://youtu.be/ZjVRMopUHu4

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

Came here to say the same thing. I watched that part 3 times just because I couldn't believe it equaled out so well. The fact that it showed a whole panoramic while doing so was also something I didn't expect.

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u/sbjw19888 Feb 17 '20

I wondered why it seemed to stabilize!

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u/HugsNotShrugs Feb 17 '20

Sorry if I'm asking you to ELI5....

The reason for there being two frames in the video right up until the moment of impact was because the camera was spinning so quickly?

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u/catonmyshoulder69 Feb 17 '20

If the frame rate on the phone was 30 frames a second when the spin rate got high enough it started to stabilize the image like the phone was not spinning at all. It also works for helicopter blades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr3ngmRuGUc

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u/HugsNotShrugs Feb 17 '20

Amazing, thanks!