Slow Motion

Cameras

This 1000fps Camera Will Capture The Super Bowl In Super Slow-Motion

1:30AM February 4, 2012 | Jamie Condliffe

Slow-motion video is nothing new to sporting events, but this NAC camera is really upping the stakes at this weekend’s Super Bowl. It’ll capture every kick, tackle and fight in glorious 1000fps footage, almost doubling what current cameras capture. More »


Cameras

The Optical Magic Of A DSLR In Slow Motion

12:30PM January 25, 2012 | Sam Biddle

The mechanism inside a DSLR that converts your press of a button to a giant, detailed JPEG is concealed by a click and an instant. But in that instant lies some incredible engineering — watch it all happen super slowly. More »


Cameras

Watch Giant Waves Eat Surfers In Slow-Motion

12:45PM January 13, 2012 | Casey Chan

Chris Bryan, the amazing slow-motion videographer, used a Phantom camera to capture surfers riding humungous waves in Teahupoʻo, Tahiti in super slow motion. It’s terrifying to see the sea monster known as the ocean so huge and intimidating and hungry. More »


Cameras

Watch Light Dance At An Unbelievable Trillion Frames Per Second

12:48AM December 14, 2011 | Andrew Liszewski

That fancy high-speed Phantom camera is pretty much a child’s toy when compared to MIT’s new hardware which can record at 1,000,000,000,000 frames per second. Fast enough to capture slow motion footage of light waves. More »


Cameras

Can Earth Look Any More Gorgeous Than This?

6:40AM December 7, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

Tom Lowe has been restlessly working on Timescapes for more than two years now. You probably already saw the first trailer of this breathtaking ultra-HD silent film. This is the newest material. A must watch. More »


Cameras

How To Shoot 4000FPS Footage On A 60FPS Budget

7:00AM November 30, 2011 | Andrew Liszewski

The Beauty of Mud features stunning high speed footage of someone splashing through a mud puddle. Except that it wasn’t shot at 4000FPS — it was actually filmed at just 60 — and processed with a plugin called Twixtor. More »


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Watch Phantom Cocktails Slowly Explode To Beastie Boys Beats

1:00AM November 30, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

Is it just me or does 5000fps really make everything more awesome? This video is actually an amalgamation of deleted footage. More »


Cameras

Super Slow Motion Ocean Waves Look Like Delicious Gigantic Jelly

5:00AM October 28, 2011 | Casey Chan

The Phantom HD Gold, a camera that brings out the life in things by capturing it in super slow motion, was used to film the oh so lovely ocean. Everything takes on a different personality in slow motion: waves look like jello, whitecaps look like cocaine and surfers, well, surfers are always awesome. More »


Geek Out

Watch Pumpkins Getting Smashed (And Unsmashed) In Slow Motion

12:17AM October 28, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

Sure, it was an iconic, angstish band some decades back, but have you ever actually smashed a pumpkin? What about watching them get shattered to bits and put back together at 1000fps? No? Well it’s the Great Pumpkin Smashing, Charlie Brown! More »


Cameras

Is JVC’s New GC-PX10 The Mythical Hybrid Video/Still Camera?

6:35AM October 4, 2011 | Brent Rose

The concept of a video/still camera didn’t excite me much. But maybe that’s because I’ve been waiting for a true video/still Hybrid. The sasquatch of the A/V forest. More »