I have never seen a wad cutter do this

[lloyd-ss]

A non-airgun photographer friend of mine sent me this link a while back.

The photographer of these pictures  (Photographer and water drop shooter extraordinaire Markus Reugels (A.K.A maianer)   took the concept one step further and had those drops meet a pellet.)
  
has a whole series of incredibly beautiful photos at this location

http://www.diyphotography.net/when-two-drops-meet-a-pallet#comment-31511

and here is one of them

[dk1677]

Wow! yes some great pictures! Thanks Lloyd!

[CharlieDaTuna]

Now that is neat.

CDT

[Calmark]

Pretty cool looking effects with photographing those water drops.  It definitely adds interest for us airgun fans with the pellet in the picture

[Brewerja]

Wow! That is pretty dang impressive! It ALMOST looks fake because its so real! What an awesome set of shots. I may pilfer one of those and make them my desktop's computer background. :-)

[aznboi3644]

thank you...saved all those pics for a desktop background slide.  Gotta love the new windows and changing backgrounds

[RedFeather]

You can also see the drag at the base of the pellet.  Kind of like a wind tunnel smoke stream.  Thanks for a great pic!

[SAADE]

Lloyd, is that an interrupted water stream or... how do he get the pellet and water drops to meet?

[lloyd-ss]

I was reading the text on the picture site and it sounds like the guy fabbed up his own bottle gun and electronically timed its discharge with a water dropping valve and with his camera.  One very clever dude!

It looks like the pellets might be real low velocity?  Just a guess because of the usual pressure limits of solenoid valves.

[jimur]

Wonderful image! This is the first time I've seen it done with a water drop and pellet. The process
is pretty simple once you know. It works like the sensors on a chrony sort of. It sends the speed/distance factors to a computer interface. Then you plug the time factor in which sends the signal
and fires the pre focused camera. I'm not sure how the actual firing of the rifle is handled apart from trail and error and adjusting the drip valve. I do know the sound from the rifle can also trigger the drip valve and give you another time/distance factor to work with. At any rate the guy did a terrific job. I've wanted to purchase the equipment to do this for a long time which can be had for under $500 if you already own a capable DSLR.

[amb5500c]

Wow! That is very very cool.
Richard

[z28rod]

Very very cool.

[Mark 611]

yep very cool!

[EJB]

That is really neat.  Thanks.