The Apple Vision Pro is many things, not the least of which is that it is an incredible piece of technology. Whether people love it or hate it, or most commonly just don't want to spend $3,500 on it, nearly everyone agrees that Apple pulled off some amazing technical achievements with the headset.
The internet is getting excited for the GlamBOT camera at the 96th Academy Awards this weekend -- with the photographer behind the slow-motion videos becoming a star in his own right.
QYSEA has announced the Fifish V-Evo underwater drone. Claimed to be the first all-in-one system to feature a 4K 60 FPS camera with 360-degree omnidirectional movement, the V-Evo can navigate below the waves for up to four hours.
A cinematographer assigned to capture Civil War cannons firing projectiles used a Phantom TMX 7510 to record at 105,000 frames per second (FPS).
Steve Giralt's The Garage Learning film school raised over $410,000 on Kickstarter in 2020. But now, just under two years later, the business has filed for bankruptcy as the idea "did not work as planned."
New Hampshire native and photographer Ron Riseman placed a GoPro in the center of the barge that launched his town's Fourth of July fireworks celebration to provide a rare look at the show as seen from directly below it.
Nikon has published a new short film and behind-the-scenes video that is designed to showcase the camera's newly-updated video prowess. The film was shot in 8K at 60 frames per second in 12-bit RAW.
The Nikon Z9 is about to get a lot more powerful thanks to a free firmware update that adds in-camera 12-bit RAW video at up to 8K at 60 frames per second, oversampled 4K at 60 frames per second, a pre-release photo capture button, and so much more.
The creative minds over at The Slow Mo Guys have shared what it looks like to pop a bubble large enough for a person to stand in at 50,000 frames per second (FPS).
A groundbreaking research project at Heriot-Watt University promises a new camera technology that can affordably deliver millions of frames per second capture in high resolution.
Honoring one of the greatest to ever play the game, this video and photo series features ten rare Kobe Bryant Nike shoes. Rather than rely on computer graphics, we chose to shoot the entire project practically by creating hundreds of individual colored Nike Swoosh plexiglass cutouts. Mamba Mentality is visualized as each shoe conquers the chaos of everything that comes its way.
For-A has announced a new dual-sensor 2/3-inch 4K camera that allows for up to 1,000 frames per second with "no sacrifice on brightness" of the image that comes with traditional single-sensor cameras using broadcast lenses.
Dr. Adrian Smith publishes incredibly detailed examinations of insects in motion through his YouTube Channel Ant Lab. While he generally picks backdrops to complement the colors of his subjects, this time he chose to mimic a more classic look.
Every year like clockwork, GoPro introduces a new action camera with varying degrees of improvement upon the last. This year we have the HERO10 Black, the company’s second push into 5.3K video recording following the HERO9, but is there enough here to warrant buying the latest and greatest?
What if every second lasted one hour instead? What would our world look like? Thanks to the powerful technology of ultra-high-speed cameras, here's a fascinating video that shows exactly what things would look like.
Filmmaker Ryan McIntyre recently had the opportunity to use the Phantom TMX 7510 slow-motion camera's 100,000 frames per second and combined it with a Laowa 24mm 2x Macro Probe lens to capture spectacular footage of vintage flashbulbs bursting brightly.
Dr. Adrian Smith regularly publishes unique looks at insects using high-speed cameras. In his latest video, Dr. Smith focuses his lens on seven stunningly beautiful species of moths and captures their movements at a blistering 6,000 frames per second.
Vision Research has announced a new "entry-level" slow-motion camera, the Phantom TMX 5010. While considered an entry-level system, the TMX 5010 can still push up to 1.16 million frames per second.
Gav from The Slow Mo Guys displays the power of sound by using extreme volumes to shatter a wine glass, all captured with a high-speed camera shooting at 187,500 frames per second.
The 2021 US Open golf championship kicks off today, and if you pay attention to the broadcast, you may notice a neat new camera technology that has been deployed. This year, the sixth hole at Torrey Pines features an array of 88 cameras to capture the players' swings in Matrix-style "bullet time."
"Playing With Time" is a new mind-blowing 1.5-minute video by Macro Room in which a man bends time and space in slow motion. It was created entirely with a high-speed camera with clever planning and editing.
The Slow Mo Guys tested out the new Phantom TMX 7510 -- the fastest Phantom yet -- by capturing a slow-motion close-up video of a spark plug breaking a car window at an incredible 800,000 frames per second.
Dr. Adrian Smith is well-known for this slow-motion study of insect species and that skill set was perfect for a detailed study of insects known as "springtails." They normally move so fast that normal cameras, as well as the human eye, cannot perceive their motion.
Vision Research, the company behind the Phantom series of high-speed cameras, has announced the Phantom TMX 7510 and 6410 which are its first to utilize backside-illuminated sensors. The TMX 7510's 75-gigapixel throughput can provide an incredible 1,750,000 frames per second.
In a 7-minute video uploaded by The Slo Mo Guys, host Gav shows how an old-school handheld 16mm Russian film camera works thanks to detailed footage captured at 1,000 frames per second with a Phantom Flex 4K.
Ben Ouaniche of the YouTube channel Macro Room has uploaded some really beautiful work combining slow motion and macro photography. To celebrate hitting one million subscribers, he shot himself getting hit with colorful liquid-filled balloons in super slow motion.
When insects fly by, they do so usually too fast to really notice how they are doing it. They either zip by our periphery or jump into the air so quickly it's hard to tell how they do it. In this 6-minute video, you can truly appreciate the funny ways different species take flight.
Photographer Jocelyn Anderson captures beautiful images of birds in their natural habitats but also has a wonderfully calming ongoing YouTube series where she depicts different bird species eating out of the palm of her hand in slow motion.
Steve Giralt is a New York City-based director, visual engineer, and founder of production company The Garage. He shoots those visually-stunning commercials you see on TV, and while most studios keep secret how they are made, Giralt wants to share it all with the world.
Dr. Adrian Smith—a scientist who is perhaps best known for his educational videos on YouTube—has released another fascinating super slow motion video highlighting a tiny little insect you've probably never heard of. They're commonly called jumping plant lice, and they're "the fastest front-flipping insect" on the planet.
Earlier this year, researchers from two universities and Google published a new AI-powered technique they developed called "Depth-Aware Video Frame Interpolation" or DAIN, and it's simply mind-blowing. The tech can interpolate a 30fps video all the way to 120fps or even 480fps with almost no visible artifacts.
NC State Assistant Professor Dr. Adrian Smith recently set out to capture some never-before-seen super slow motion footage for his YouTube channel Ant Lab. The results sit right at the border between "genuinely educational" and "downright stunning."
Researchers in Japan released some truly fascinating footage this week. Using special 'high-sensitivity' cameras and laser beams, they're able to capture microdroplets that are 1/10,000 of a millimeter in size—droplets that are invisible to the naked eye, and may contribute to the spread of COVID-19.
Sigma has announced a forthcoming firmware update for the full-frame mirrorless Sigma fp that will add some very impressive features including cinemagraph functionality, Full HD 120fps RAW video capture, HDR shooting, and more.
Envisioning Chemistry—the collaboration between the Beauty of Science and the Chinese Chemical Society that seeks to “reveal the beauty of chemistry through special techniques such as macro and micro photography, high-speed photography, time-lapse photography, and infrared thermal imaging"—has released another fascinating entry.
Qualcomm has officially unveiled its next generation smartphone chipset--the Snapdragon 865--and if the specs are to be believed, smartphone cameras are going to get a whole lot more powerful next year.
Storm chaser and filmmaker Dustin Farrell (@dustin_farrell) has released a striking (no pun intended) new 4K highlight reel that condenses two years of storm chasing with a Phantom Flex 4K into three and a half minutes of jaw-dropping 1,000fps footage.
Apple showed off slow-motion selfies at its iPhone 11 Pro unveiling this week and jokingly referred to them as "slofies." But it turns out the company was more serious about the term than you may have thought -- it has filed an application to trademark it.
The Hydraulic Press YouTube channel is already an entertaining (if occasionally painful) watch. Who doesn't want to see things get crushed and/or explode... in slow motion? But the channel recently took it up another notch by setting up a ring of 72 high-speed cameras to capture some awesome bullet-time slow-motion footage.
An ant's stinger is thinner than the width of a human hair, and made up of a main stinger and two "lancets" that actively drill into you as they release venom. We know this because of the incredible footage of this process that was recently captured for the very first time in super-slow motion.