40 High Speed Shots that Make an Impact

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 at 3:44 pm

High Speed shots and slow motion are very similar, in some instances they are the same thing. Since to get a great high speed shot, you have to record the image at a high rate of shutter speed, and then play it back at a slower normal rate of speed. Here are 40 high speed shots that will amaze you.

Slow motions photos will grab a viewers interest in ways standard still shots or standard video can not. Slow motion is a superb effect which you can use creatively in many different ways.

Obtaining a great slow motion shot requires fairly sophisticated equipment. You can’t obtain a great slow motion shot utilizing a standard, low-cost video camera. This is the reason why.

Standard video records at 30 frames per second. Standard motion picture film records at 24 frames per second. Practically anything that moves goes way too fast for that. When you take a look at standard 30-frame-per-second video of a moving subject, each individual frame will appear blurry. It’s impossible to eliminate this blur after it has already been recorded.

To obtain great slow motion video or shots, you must record at a rate faster than 30-frames-per-second. Low-cost camcorders cannot do this, whereas more expensive ones can.

The highest quality solution to get excellent slow motion is by using a camera which has a variable shutter. To get extremely good slow motion, recording at 1,000 frames per second or even higher is recommended. Exactly how high are you able to go?

The high-speed photography pioneer Harold Edgerton of M.I.T. shot his legendary photos at speeds as high as several million frames per second. He utilized the highest rates of speed for his atomic bomb shots. Many other shots such as the famous bullet-through-the-apple were accomplished with a mere 100 thousand frames per second.

You can start getting quality slow motion without having to go to those extremes. If you record at 1,000 frames per second and then play it back again at the standard film rate of 24 frames per second, or video rate of 30 frames per second, you will get a amazing looking slow motion effect. Each and every frame is sharp and clean without having any blur. (Unless your subject is moving Extremely Fast.)

Many folks don’t understand that video cameras have a shutter. It is because only high-priced video cameras permit you any kind of control over the shutter. More affordable cameras have shutters, but since you can’t control them, they’re not even pointed out in the user guide.

High-priced video cameras do permit you to control the shutter. (The shutter speed and the frame rate are NOT the same thing, however I do not want to get overly technical.)

On all of the high-priced video cameras I have ever utilized, controlling the shutter was a easy matter of flipping a switch. These types of cameras permitted you to set the shutter at any one of around 10 different rates of speed, up to a speed of 5,000 times per second. These were $10,000 dollar or higher video cameras.

As technology improves, this kind of feature is coming to more affordable cameras. The Casio Ex-F1, retailing for just $1,000, was touted as the “world’s fastest camera. It was in fact a digital still camera which could shoot video.

For still photos, the EX-F1 records 60 frames per second. While shooting video, you are able to set it to 300, 600, or 1,200 frames per second. For the cost, it is a amazing accomplishment. You’re going to get smooth slow mothin video of the majority of moving objects at these types of speeds.

The EX-F1 came out about a year ago. Currently, things have improved all the more and Casio has introduced some new models which are less expensive as well as smaller.

You have the EX-FC1000 (5x zoom, 2.7-inch screen with image stabilization) as well as the EX-FS10 (3x zoom, 2.5-inch screen).

The disadvantages of these cameras are that you must have a great deal of light at these high shutter speeds. Plus, the frame sizes they produce at these speeds is smaller. These are the trade-offs.

All in all, these cameras are outstanding.

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