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This New Phantom Camera Can Shoot 4MP at 6,600FPS

Vision Research has announced its latest Phantom high-speed camera, the Phantom v2640. This camera is the fastest 4-megapixel camera ever made, capturing a stagging 6,600 frames per second. Drop the resolution down to 1080p, and you can shoot at a whopping 11,750fps.

Slow-Motion: Amtrak Train vs. Snow

Here's a slow-motion video that's going viral: Nick Colvin captured an Amtrak train arriving at a station where the tracks were covered with a thick layer of snow. What results is a beautiful (and scary) white explosion.

Watch Popcorn Explode at 30,000fps Super Slow Motion

It's a well-known "fact of the Internet" that almost anything will look cool if you shoot it in super slow motion—the "Slow Mo Guys" have made quite a YouTube career out of it. But even if you're getting sick of the trend, watching popcorn pop at 30,000 fps will probably still delight.

Underwater Explosions Captured at 28,000fps and 120,000fps

The Slow Mo Guys have captured some amazing things for their YouTube channel—including this amazing footage of glass shattering at 340,000fps—but their latest creation might be our favorite yet. Click play to see a firecracker explode underwater at a mind-bending 120,000fps.

Watch a High Speed ‘Cinebot’ Capture Some Killer Slow Motion Shots

Not everything looks better in slow motion, but a whole lot of things do. Case-in-point, check out this behind the scenes video that shows a high speed robotic arm being used to capture slow motion footage, and then shows you the sweet results. (Warning: There is very brief nudity around 1:40).

Slow Motion Lightning Strike Captured on an iPhone

It's not 7,207fps to be sure, but this hand-held slow motion iPhone video of lightning lighting up the sky above Ashburn, Virgina is still really cool—all the more so for how accessible shooting slow motion footage like this has become.

A Slow-Mo Study of Las Vegas with an Infrared Sony RX100 IV

"Las Vegas In Infrared" is a new 4-minute short film by Philip Bloom, who visited Las Vegas with a Sony RX100 IV that had been modified for infrared photography through having its filter removed. Most of what you see was shot from a moving vehicle with 2 second bursts at 250fps through a 665nm filter.

Watch a Bullet Fly Through 5 Light Bulbs at 62,000 FPS

Cameras can make the invisible, visible. In this case, the magic of slow motion makes it possible to watch as a bullet smashes through 5 lit light bulbs, tearing through the frame at 62,000 frames per second and sending white-hot filament and shards of powdered glass in all directions.

Moving Light Around Objects Frozen in Time by High Speed Cameras

We won't waste time hemming and hawing: this is just plain cool. Using a patented technology, Satellite Lab can move a light source around an object at 10,000 feet per second while capturing that same object in super slow motion, creating an effect we'll call "bullet time 2.0".

Camera vs. Lawnmower, Captured in Slow Motion

The YouTube channel tesla500 wanted to see what happens when various objects fall into the spinning blades of an upside-down lawnmower, so they set up some slow motion cameras to find out.

In addition to dropping keyboards and mice, they also decided to destroy an old Olympus point-and-shoot digital camera (it's about 2.5-minutes in).

‘Impact’: A Vertical Video of a 30m Cliff Dive in 4K and 1,000FPS

Shooting vertical video, the use of portrait orientation rather than landscape, is considered by many to be one of the scourges of the Web introduced by smartphone cameras. Google's camera app even warns you when you're in vertical orientation.

Director Jean-Charles Granjon recently decided to try his hand at turning vertical video from an annoyance into a cinematic experience. His short film above, titled Impact, embraces the orientation in order to capture the "mental journey" of a high diver jumping off a cliff.