Slow-motion, yeah!

At NAB this past month, one of the sessions I attended featured the new Phantom HD camera, a rather nifty (and of course ridiculously expensive!) little device capable of recording hi-def video footage at up to 1,000 frames per second. For a demonstration, they shot footage of a quarter spinning on a flat surface, as well as one of those children's toys that does back flips after you wind it up. While that might not sound all that amazing, it was simply incredible to see how much detail this camera is capable of recording, stuff that the human eye could never pick up on. And the really cool part is that the footage could be stopped at anytime to provide a perfect, hi-res, 10 megapixel frame (yup, a lot of storage space is needed...). Take that interlaced video! Anyway, I tried shopping around the web to see if I could find some sample video of the camera in action. This first site, called Vision Research, features a number of different videos, all shot exclusively with the Phantom (check out the water balloon one...absolutely ridiculous!). This other site, Lucid Movement, also has plenty of high-speed videos dealing with everything from explosions, to stuff with water and smoke, and of course, various things breaking. Hooray for slow-motion! Enjoy...