Footage of a Giant Bubble Being Popped from the Inside at 50,000 FPS
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).
This Guy Bends Time and Space in Slow Motion
"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.
Watch a Spark Plug Versus a Car Window at 800,000 FPS Slow Motion
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.
Scientist Captures Super Slow Motion Video of Insects Taking Off at 3,200fps
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."
Scientist Captures Incredible 1,000fps Close-Up of Ants Injecting Venom
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.
Scientists Use Camera with Human-Like Vision to Capture 5,400 fps Video
A team of scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) have figured out how to capture super slow-motion footage using what's called an "Event Camera." That is: a camera that sees the world in a continuous stream of information, the way humans do.
This iPhone Slow-Mo Shot from a Car Makes the World Look Frozen
Here's a neat slow-motion video shot on an iPhone from inside a moving car. The birds in the sky are seemingly frozen in time, making it look like the world outside has come to a standstill.
This High-Speed Spinning Camera Rig Shoots Slow-Motion at 150 RPM
Ben Ouaniche of the YouTube channel Macro Room spent the past many months working on a high-speed spinning camera rig project. The result is a rig that can capture incredible slow-motion action footage while spinning around a tabletop set at 150 rotations per minute.
This Slow-Motion Hummingbird Video Was Shot on the iPhone
Want to shoot some beautiful slow-motion footage of hummingbirds in flight? As this 4-minute video by photographer and conservationist Phil Torres shows, all you need these days is a smartphone.
Canon Unveils 100fps Ultra-Low-Light Sensor for Slow-Mo in the Dark
In addition to showing off its ultra-high-resolution 120MP sensor, Canon has also released this 3-minute video to show the abilities of 35MMFHDXS, a new 2.2-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor that has both high sensitivity and high speed.
This Epic 4K Film Captures the Beauty of Lightning at 1,000FPS
Photographer and filmmaker Dustin Farrell spent the summer chasing lightning with a $110,000 Phantom Flex4K high-speed camera. What resulted was this 4K short film, titled "Transient," that shows the epic beauty of lightning in 1,000fps slow motion.
This is the World’s Fastest Camera Slider, Built for Slow-Motion
Daniel DeArco has created what he claims to be the "world's fastest camera slider." Capable of sliding 5 feet in just 0.15 seconds, this thing is pretty darn fast - check out what it can do in the 3-minute demo above.
Smooth 360° ‘Bullet Time’ Rig Made from Some Wood and a Swivel Caster
We've seen a lot of creative setups for faking that 'bullet time' look—one guy strapped his GoPro to a ceiling fan—but this creation filmmaker Luca Amhofer is the most versatile and functional DIY rig of its kind we've ever seen... and it's dirt cheap to make!
This Hypnotizing Video Combines Ink, Water, Macro, and Slow-Mo
Here's a 4-minute video by the folks over at Macro Room that looks like it was made using computer imagery, but it was actually shot using a tank of water, colored ink, and various objects.
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.
Slow Motion ‘Bullet Time’ Shot with the Ultra-High Speed Chronos Camera
Remember that camera we found on YouTube a few months back? The same one that just smashed its Kickstarter goal? Yeah... it's awesome. And this demo by Applied Sciences shows you one reason why: pseudo bullet time.
Slow-Motion Hummingbird Captured at 240fps with the iPhone 6S
Photographer Jessica Dyer pointed her iPhone 6S at a hummingbird feeder and captured this beautiful slow-motion footage of a hummingbird stopping by for a quick drink. The clip was shot in 720p at 240fps.
How to Pull Focus in 1500FPS Slow-Mo
Here's a 2-minute video in which cinematographer Matthew Rosen explains how he pulled focus at high speed for detergent ad.
Slow Mo Game Changer: The Chronos 1.4 Shoots 21,650fps for Just $2,500
We first spotted the Chronos 1.4 homebrew high-speed camera back in September. Now, we get our first real look at this powerful labor of engineering love, which is being hailed as a game-changer for slow motion videography.
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.
This Homebrew High Speed Camera is Headed to Kickstarter Soon
Affordable, high-quality high speed cameras a tough to come by. But that might soon change, thanks to Kickstarter and years of work by one diligent engineer.
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).
Watch Glass Shatter at a Mind-Blowing 343,915fps
This video needs very little introduction beyond the headline except to say that yes, it is exactly as cool as it sounds.
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.
Holding an Explosion: Capturing a Transparent Spud Gun at 20,000fps
It's Friday. The perfect day to share something that's part camera-related, part science-related, and part this-is-just-plain-cool-related: a hand-held explosion captured at 20,000fps.
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.
This is What Lightning Looks Like at 7,000 Frames Per Second
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.
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).