Golf Ball hitting a steel plate at 150 mph

[GH85Carrera]

Golf Ball Hitting Steel At 150mph - Slow Motion (70,000 fps)

I had no idea a golf ball could deform that much and stay in one piece.

[porsche4life]

Once when I was shooting the air cannon I dinged the metal saw horse with the golfball(hard to aim) and it esploded the golf ball....

I would like to have had slomo video of that....

[quicksix]

Thats what it looks like when i use my driver















yeah right

[EarlyPorsche]

Was that photoshopped? A water balloon? The material of a golf ball doesn't yield more than a couple percent before cracking. If the ball was heated before firing it would still crack just later.

[ODDJOB UNO]

thats what yer brain looks like in a helmet after getting hit,hitting someone, hitting the wall, or when an IED goes off!


helmet technology for soldiers and racers has taken quantum leaps because of IEDS.

[Heel n Toe]

Originally Posted by EarlyPorsche

Was that photoshopped? A water balloon? The material of a golf ball doesn't yield more than a couple percent before cracking. If the ball was heated before firing it would still crack just later.

It really doesn't seem possible that a regulation ball would do that.

From the captioning below the video window...

Editor's note: The footage comes from the BBC and was shown during golf coverage. We were unable to establish whether a regulation golf ball or a 'practice ball' (with higher elasticity) was used for this experiment.

[McLovin]

guys can hit the ball with 120 mph clubhead speed - I don't think that is anywhere near a regulation golf ball.

[TheMentat]

Any ball that deforms that much at 150mph would make a terrible golf ball on the course

[Zeke]

A piece of medium hard rubber, white with golf ball dimples would be my guess..

[nynor]

150mph is not 70,000fps.

[HelmetHead]

Sweet...like waterballons popping in slow motion

[artplumber]

Originally Posted by nynor

150mph is not 70,000fps.

slow motion - Frames per second, not feet per second

[TimT]

150mph is not 70,000fps.

slow motion - Frames per second, not feet per second

There is some misinformation

Is there a shutter that could function at 70,000 frames per second?

Don't feel like doing the conversion.. but apparently 150 mph is not 70,000 feet per second...

In any even it is a cool clip...

At any rate


( I crack my self up)

[billjam]

Here's what a golf ball hit really looks like ...

Photron - Gallery

[craigster59]

The introduction of the CCD revolutionized high-speed photography in the 1980s. The staring array configuration of the sensor eliminated the scanning artifacts. Precise control of the integration time replaced the use of the mechanical shutter. However, the CCD architecture limited the rate at which images could be read off the sensor. Most of these systems still ran at NTSC rates (approximately 60 frame/s), but some, especially those built by the Kodak Spin Physics group, ran faster and recorded onto specially constructed video tape cassettes. The Kodak MASD group developed the first HyG (rugged) high speed digital color camera called the RO that replaced 16-mm crash sled film cameras[13]. Many new innovations and recording methods were introduced in the RO and further enhancements were introduced in the HG2000, a camera that could run at 1000 frame/s with a 512 x 384 pixel sensor for 2 seconds. Kodak MASD group also introduced an ultra high speed CCD camera called the HS4540 that was designed and manufactured by Photron in 1991[14] that recorded 4,500 FPS at 256 x 256. The HS4540 was used extensively by companies manufacturing automotive air bags to do lot testing which required the fast record speed to image a 30 ms deployment.
By adding an image intensifier to a CCD, it is possible to capture a single frame of a very fast event. Hadland uses this technique for a range of high-speed cameras capable of running at 1,000,000 frame/s, though record lengths are limited to 8 or 16 images. More recently, Specialised Imaging Limited[2] introduced a high speed camera that was capable of running at 200,000,000 frame/s with up to 32 images.

[craigster59]

200,000,000 frames per second! Boy what Sam Peckinpah coulda done with that!