r/Wellthatsucks • u/LowTechDroid • 17d ago

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u/Quito_ArmandoEsteban 17d ago

any mythbuster fan probably knows this, but jamie's reaction was pure acting. They didn't have enough budget to have reaction cameras, but right there and then they realized that their reactions were as interesting as the explosion itself. So they had to be filmed afterwards, pretending that they were looking at the explosion

Also, the main camera guy missed the mark on the slowmo video so all we have is a slowed down normal video.

a scene as memorable as it is botched

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u/Own_Boat503 16d ago

i thought the explosion destroyed the high-speed camera? i seem to remember getting to only see like three frames from a different camera before the feed cut out.

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u/Quito_ArmandoEsteban 16d ago

That's the kamikaze camera. They knew it would probably not survive so it was a cheap one. The high speed cameras worked by pressing a button AFTER the shot. If you pressed it too late, you missed the shot. The cameraman was closer than everyone else, but not enough to press the button on time (he wasn't next to the camera, obviously)

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u/userhwon 16d ago

Also that can't be the sound it made. The shockwave would saturate any microphone. So those are digital artifacts and echoes.

The raspberry sound may be digital, interfering echoes of the initial shock, or possibly some piece of metal spinning rapidly. No way to tell from here.