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.
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.
While traveling through the streets of New York City, filmmaker Glen Vivaris pulled out his smartphone and shot footage at 960 frames per second out the car window. He then created this 2-minute video that makes the New Yorkers on sidewalks look like they're frozen in time.
The Chinese 360°/VR camera and software company Kandao has announced a new technology called AI Slow-Motion that uses machine learning to turn ordinary footage into super slow motion shots. For example, it can make a 30fps video look like it was shot at 300fps.
Lightning strikes are usually so brief that their tiny details aren't noticed by the human eye. Capture lightning at 7,000 frames per second, however, and all kinds of crazy details emerge. That's what you'll see in the 45-second video above.
A massive thunderstorm over Dubai was recently captured in super slow motion at 1977 frames per second.
Want to see what a speeding bullet leaving a handgun looks like at 73,000 frames per second? Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman of Mythbusters recently decided to find out by pointing a Phantom v2010 high-speed camera at Hyneman while he fired a pistol. While the price of this camera hasn't been published, its predecessor, the v1610 cost around $100,000.
Sharp may not be the most popular kid on the block when it comes to smartphone manufacturers, but the company is working hard to offer features that other phones don't have. For its latest Aquos smartphones, Sharp has added 2,100fps slow-motion playback. It's being called the world's highest-rate super slow motion playback for smartphones.
Here's a 1-minute video titled "Revolution," created by Dubai-based photographer Sherif Mokbel "to support all the free people fighting for their liberation and right to live." Mokbel also created the work as a technical exercise in how to turn still photos shot with a DSLR into pseudo super-slow-motion footage.
Crashing and destroying your drone is painful on your wallet, but it's not usually the cost of a house. The video above is different. It's documents the first ever drone flight to involve a Phantom 4K camera mounted to an Aerigon UAV.
"The title of this will either be 'The most technical advanced drone camera flight of all time,' or 'The quarter-million-dollar crash'," says one team member.
If you want to see the mechanics of how a modern DSLR shutter works, one way to do so is through slow-motion captured with a high-speed camera. That's what Gavin Free of The Slow Mo Guys recently did by pointing a Phantom Flex at his Canon 7D and capturing what goes on inside the mirror box during exposures of various shutter speeds.
By slowing down the movements after shooting at up to 10,000 frames per second, we get to see exactly what goes on in the camera in the blink of an eye.
Photographer Florian Knorn recently took a Fastcam SA4 high speed camera -- ordinarily used for observing things like ballistics and fluid dynamics -- and pointed it at a Sony HVL-F58AM flash unit, capturing what a camera flash firing looks like when captured at 500,000 frames per second and then slowed down to to 25fps.
It's not uncommon for digital cameras to have burst modes as fast as 10 frames per second these days -- especially in mirrorless and pellicle mirror cameras -- but do you think you have a good understanding of just how fast 10FPS is? If not, check out this video by YouTube user krnabrnydziobak, who pointed a Phantom Miro eX2 at a Nikon D4 to see what 10FPS looks like when captured at a staggering 1920FPS.
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It seems like everything is cooler in super slow motion, and fire-breathing is certainly no exception. Vancouver-based still photographer …
Photographer Tom Warner shot this slow motion incredible video of lightning at 7,207 …
You know those amazing high speed photos and videos of bullets being shot through various objects? BMW Canada decided …
There’s a Danish TV show called “Dumt & Farligt” in which two guys are given a house and the …
New York-based production company Variable traveled to India and pointed a Phantom Flex …
Here’s a stunning super slow motion video that shows Marina Kanno and Giacomo Bevilaqua of Staatsballett Berlin performing several …
Cinematographer Chris Bryan used a Phantom HD Gold camera in a custom underwater …
While we’re on the topic of high-speed cameras (and slow motion videos), here’s a beautiful slow-motion video of an …
Here’s an interesting glimpse into what a DSLR’s aperture blades and shutter curtain look like in super slow motion.
This is what lighting a match looks like up close and in super slow-mo at 2000 frames per second.
Forget throwing water balloons at people’s faces — if you ever get your hands on a super …
When a NASA Space Shuttle lifts off, there’s always high definition cameras carefully placed around the launch site, documenting …
If you don't have the $2,500 needed to rent a Phantom camera for a day but would like to have super slow motion in your videos, you can fake the effect using special software designed for the task. The above video by Oton Bačar was recorded on a Canon 7D at 60 frames per second, but was slowed down to mimic 1000fps in After Effects with Twixtor, a plugin that allows you to speed up or slow down footage smoothly. It uses warping and interpolation to provide smooth results, avoiding the choppiness that you see when you play normal video back in "slow motion".