There are incredible feats of engineering going completely unnoticed all around us. The way a high-speed camera shutter works is one of them.
Luckily, the Phantom slow-mo cam — everyone’s best friend — exists to show us just how awesome camera guts are at 1920 frames per second. We’ve seen similar on a Canon 60D, but what we have here is a Nikon D4 shooting photos at a rate of 10 frames per second. For each photo, the mirror flips up and the first curtain drops, exposing the image sensor for 1/200th of a second. Then, the second shutter drops to complete the exposure. Bravo.
It’s truly amazing, in an age when moving parts are being eliminated from gadgets left and right, that this mechanism exists and functions so speedily. [YouTube via PetaPixel]