Let's take this real slowwww
Check it out: Adam Rasheed, one of the researchers at GE's Global Research Center in Niskayuna, is looking for suggestions of stuff to shoot with a super high-speed camera -- the video can be slowed down to see all sorts of details. Rasheed says they'll try to post the results online.
An example is embedded above. It's the slow motion video of a water balloon being popped.
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Hummingbird, duh.
... said TP on May 3, 2010 at 2:02 PM | link
Nice. You can definitely do that at home nowadays, in color :) Casio introduced an affordable high-speed camera back in 2008, the Exilim EX-F1, and later on made that technology available in an even smaller form factor in both the Exilim EX-F100 and EX-FS10 point&shoots. You can get them for under $200, and shoot normal 720p videos at 30fps, but also 480×360 at 210fps (fine for YouTube), 224×168 at 420fps, etc. Fun toys.
Examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9C_xlnaqxY
http://vimeo.com/3505016
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ6xERzWcdo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_Ft_nCZAU
... said -S on May 3, 2010 at 2:38 PM | link
Speaker diaphragms. Cards being shuffled. Hamster on a hamster wheel. Glass shattering. Pterodactyls.
... said B on May 3, 2010 at 3:12 PM | link
> Hamster on a hamster wheel
Wish granted (also, bonus, and tragedy).
I want more of that. "Friday Slow Motion Hamster" blog = profit.
... said -S on May 3, 2010 at 3:45 PM | link
Sneeze.
Boiling water bubbles.
Dog shaking off water
... said Aunt Psy on May 3, 2010 at 5:29 PM | link
Cat drinking water, bumblebee in flight .............
... said Joyce on May 4, 2010 at 9:42 AM | link
Awesome! Whatever they do next, please post!
... said A.S. on May 4, 2010 at 10:02 AM | link
Incandescent bulb turning on. Lighter. Taser. Money leaving my checking account.
... said B on May 4, 2010 at 10:05 AM | link
Firecracker
Exploding cigar
flashbulb (the old fashioned, on shot kind that ends up all melted)
... said komradebob on May 10, 2010 at 11:56 AM | link
> Exploding cigar
That's a combination of words I'm really afraid to Google at work.
... said -S on May 10, 2010 at 2:00 PM | link