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Watch a US$5000 Nikon D3 DSLR Fire in Ultra Slow Motion
Posted by Matt Buchanan at 5:40 AM on September 5, 2008
Ever wondered exactly how honking DSLRs work vs. your pocket point-and-shoot? Photographer Marianne Oelund shot an incredibly high speed sequence (more incredibly, not with a high speed camera!) of Nikon's US$5000 flagship, the D3, popping a 1/62 second exposure, which Jeffrey Friedl has turned into a mini web movie. In 87.8 milliseconds, you see the mirror flip up, the shutter curtain drop to expose the image sensor—at 35kph!—and everything move back into place. Truly amazing: [Regex, Marianne Oeuland via Daring Fireball]
Ever wondered exactly how honking DSLRs work vs. your pocket point-and-shoot? Photographer
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woolie
Posted 6:15 AM 5/9/08
it seems she used another camera to take images of the D3 shutter firing, offset by a certain number of milliseconds from a flashbulb. She then reassembled these into a movie. It's easy to do this because the D3 shutter should be the same each time ti fires, so you don't need to capture it in one go.
re: gigawatts. In the movie it's "jigawatts" because they wanted to use nonsense units.
woolie
matt buchanan
Posted 6:11 AM 5/9/08
@ripfire: Actually no, you should read her method, it's pretty intense.
matt buchanan
1.21Gigawatts
Posted 6:09 AM 5/9/08
@lilaliendog: No it's gigawatt, but in English people will pronounce it as 'gig' or 'jig.'
I forget the whole href link string.
[www.merriam-webster.com]
1.21Gigawatts
rjp
Posted 6:07 AM 5/9/08
@lilaliendog: No, it's gigawatts.
rjp
lilaliendog
Posted 6:02 AM 5/9/08
@1.21Gigawatts: isn't it jiggawatts?
lilaliendog
1.21Gigawatts
Posted 5:59 AM 5/9/08
@xint: Just make sure to use the camera AFTER the sadie hawkins dance.
1.21Gigawatts
iSee
Posted 5:54 AM 5/9/08
@damnElantra: Try getting a clean pause and backing up just 1 frame on a youtube video, then you can complain about the .exe
She used another D3 to take the pics.
iSee
xint
Posted 5:51 AM 5/9/08
@1.21Gigawatts: GREAT SCOTT!!!
xint
1.21Gigawatts
Posted 5:49 AM 5/9/08
@Kaiser-Machead on the Edge: To get the camera moving that fast, you would need a vast amount of energy.
Like....1.21 Gigawatts!
1.21Gigawatts
ripfire
Posted 5:49 AM 5/9/08
Lemme guess, they used and EX-F1 to record it?
ripfire
damnElantra
Posted 5:48 AM 5/9/08
.exe viewing... screw that, join the 21 century! youtube FTW
damnElantra
Kaiser-Machead on the Edge
Posted 5:46 AM 5/9/08
That's pretty awesome.
However, 88mph would've been preferred.
Kaiser-Machead on the Edge
sfokevin
Posted 6:19 AM 5/9/08
Can you put a fly in there and see who wins?...
sfokevin
LoganAdams
Posted 1:01 PM 5/9/08
I just can't stop watching it.
LoganAdams
fluf
Posted 5:34 PM 5/9/08
I keep hearing the classic "GET SMART" opening theme when I watch that vid.
fluf
ppiddy
Posted 11:40 PM 5/9/08
The amazing thing is that an SLR can do this a hundred thousand times or more before any of those parts break.
ppiddy
Rexter
Posted 5:13 AM 6/9/08
ive watched it like, 20 times now
Rexter