Supposedly this camera fell out of the sky and into a pig pen. Fortunately it didn’t crash down (and kill) any pigs. Watch the end.
I’m somewhat skeptical of this, or at least surprised that it landed facing upwards, in working order, having come down from the sky. Supposedly it was found by the farmer eight months later and posted to Youtube. At this writing it’s been viewed over 4 million times in 3 days.
(HT: Ron S.)
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Why skeptical? Just because it’s a famous action camera maker’s device and the company is famous for various stunts and advertisements of ridiculous complexity? 🙂
Can someone explain how you get a V-sync issue on a digital camera?
It reminds me of our TV as a kid…. sometimes you needed to slap the side of it to fix the V-sync!
And if you’re going to the trouble of all this, at least have the pig pee on it or something.
The “V-sync” issue is exactly what you used to see. But in this case it’s because the camera is actually spinning at a high rate, and eventually syncs up with its frame rate.
Reminds me of the commerical about everything on the Internet and now youtube being true. Yes I’m a French model bonjur lol.
Makes sense to me that it fell and was found 8 months later as claimed. What it doesn’t say is that they probably dropped 50 of them with GPS tracking devices to see which ones survived, face up, and purposely waited 8 months before retrieving and posting the footage.
Real or fake? Who cares. The pig footage was awesome!
I feel like I just made out with a pig!
@Scottrick, seems awfully dangerous to drop 50 cameras over an area where people actually live just for a cool ad.
I’m voting this is fake. The liability would be too high if this fell and killed someone.
But as @Graydon says, who cares? It’s still awesome!
@Paul S. LOL!! Fantastic…who cares if it’s fake
Pigs will try to eat anything short of a porcupine. Why anyone would find this surprising or funny, well, says more about them than the pig.
I think you’ll find that 3,800,000 of those views are computers and not human, much like the video was produced in a studio, consisting of four edits, to appear it fell from a plane, spun around, became straight, then was flying on a droid, landed in a pig pen, and Porky wanted a snack.
Lots of Google fraud now-a-days. Everyone wants to be famous, I guess.
I like the camera on the falcons chasing and attacking crows in mid-flight. That was authentic. Thanks.
Baaaacon, Baacon, Bacon, I Hope the hotel buffet has BACON today!
Definitely fake. WTF is all of that “spinning” it’s doing, and somehow it ends up syncing up the spinning with the fps of the camera or something. Funny either way, but definitely fake.