LAB CHRONICLE #16
-Message from the Optical Engineer-

“You put the lens cap in front of the camera.”
→ I also put doubt in the entire team.

#LabStruggles #HighSpeedCamera #LabExperiment #LeidenfrostEffect #StayCool

LAB CHRONICLE #6
-Scientific Equipment-

Equipment:
– Hotplate
– High-speed camera
– Hope
(Only one is stable at high temperature)

#LeidenfrostEffect #InsideTheLab #LabSetup #HighSpeedCamera #LabGear #HopeInTheLab

Freefly’s S2.5K High-Speed Camera Ditches E-Mount At Sony’s Request https://petapixel.com/2024/04/23/freeflys-s2-5k-high-speed-camera-ditches-e-mount-at-sonys-request/ #highspeedcamera #Equipment #highspeed #Industry #efmount #freefly #nab2024 #emount #ember #News #nab

Scientist Films Slow-Motion Footage of Snake Attacks to Discover How They Kill https://petapixel.com/2024/01/19/scientist-films-slow-motion-footage-of-snake-attacks-to-discover-how-they-kill/ #slowmotionfootage #highspeedcamera #edgertronic #Culture #snakes #snake #News

This is one of the coolest high-speed camera videos I’ve seen, and definitely the most interesting welding video (I’ve watched many dozens).
“See welding like you’ve never seen it before!”, but like, actually.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ygLbldJF_dc

#welding #HighSpeedCamera

Giant bubbles popping at 50,000fps looks like a weird gelatinous transparent fabric

#inspiration #bubbles #highspeedcamera #slowmotion #theslowmoguys

The Phantom S991 Shoots 4K at 937 FPS, Uses New Fiber Delivery Tech

#equipment #news #4k #937fps #highspeed #highspeedcamera #machinevision #phantom #phantomflex #phantomflex4k #phantoms991 #superslowmotion #visionresearch

Photographer Shares Tips For Water Droplet Collision Shots

Photographing water droplet collisions can be tricky given that your subject vanishes in the blink of an eye. The process of setting up and revising a successful shoot strategy isn't easy, but one photographer has shared his best tips and techniques to help with that.

Jens Heidler from the YouTube channel Another Perspective has previously shared projects born of his passion for macro and timelapse work, including his 10-day timelapse of a cracked egg, advice on capturing snowflakes, and his macro capture that shows the life cycle of ladybugs and shiitake mushrooms.

In the 10-minute video above, Heidler offers his advice for setting up a water droplet collision shoot, starting with picking out the best tools to release each drop, including budget-friendly options for beginners who want to give this type of photography a go without investing in additional equipment just yet.

Although Heidler uses a Photron Fastcam Nova S16, a specialized high-speed camera, this type of photography can still be shot at home using accessible equipment. Having sufficient light is crucial, regardless of what kind of camera is used, and Heidler opted for a continuous light source instead of a flash because of his high-speed camera, which would require owning a flash that can fire 7,000 times per second. For a regular consumer camera workflow, two flashes would suffice.

For Heidler, the easiest way to set focus is to mark the position where droplets fall with an upright pen, stuck down on the table with putty to hold it in place, which allows him to set the focus with precision.

The beauty of this kind of experimentative photography is that altering each aspect of the workflow, such as the camera settings, timings, the color or type of the liquid, placement of the lights, and more, can open up different possibilities that will produce unique results, as shown in Heidler's videos below.

Heidler pairs the Photron Fastcam Nova S16 with a Sony FE 90mm f/2.8 Macro lens to capture 7,000 images per second, which are then combined. Altering the parameters of his shots, Heidler was able to produce visually varied footage that shows how small changes can create dramatically different and unique results.

More of Heidler's educational and inspirational videos can be found on his YouTube channel.

Image credits: All images by Jens Heidler and used with permission.

#inspiration #tutorials #walkthroughs #droplet #droplets #highspeedcamera #highspeedphotography #howto #jensheidler #macro #photron #water #waterdroplets

This Guy Bends Time and Space in Slow Motion

"Playing With Time" is a new mind-blowing 1.5-minute video by Macro Room in which a man bends time and space in slow motion. It was created entirely with a high-speed camera with clever planning and editing.

Ben Ouaniche, the Tel-Aviv, Israel-based visual art director who founded Macro Room in 2016, shot the project with a Chronos 2.1 HD camera, which has a starting price of $4,995.

The camera The room

Everything seen in the video was shot at 1,000 frames per second, even the real-time shots of Ouaniche interacting with the slow-motion objects, since the real-time portions had to be matched with the slow-motion action portions.

The Chronos 2.1 HD has an 8-second recording limit, so Ouaniche had to plan for each of the scenes to be a maximum of 8-seconds long in real-time.

After the necessary footage was captured, the real "magic" was done during the editing stage.

"Using rotoscoping and Alpha Matte in After Effects, I managed to separate different shots and re-time them to create an illusion of a continues shot," Ouaniche tells PetaPixel.

Some of the inspiration in the video came from the 2020 Christopher Nolan film Tenet , Ouaniche says, and he even included a small homage to Nolan in the milk bottle sequence -- take a close look at the label of the stopwatch.

"My goal was to create a new kind of 'jump cut illusion' video, but instead of using the normal cut in action trick, I wanted to create seamless cuts in slow-motion without the help of a fast action to cover the magic," Ouaniche says. "This required some precise planning and a lot of tests to get everything to work together."

As this video is going viral online, many commenters immediately assume that portions of it were created with the help of computer-generated imagery, but this was not the case.

"There is no 3D or simulations in the video in any way," Ouaniche says. "It's all real footage and compositing. I saw some comments about that, so I just wanted to clear it up."

You can find more of Ouaniche's work on his popular Macro Room YouTube channel, which has over 1.3 million subscribers.

#features #ideas #inspiration #benouaniche #chronos #chronos21hd #creative #highspeedcamera #macroroom #mindbending #slowmo #slowmotion #timeandspace #trippy

@sohkamyung
Lovely use of a #HighSpeedCamera!
Gotta love how his eyelids close after the apple has already left the vicinity of his eyes.
Also, I bet he'll be finding random pieces of apple everywhere still for the next couple of months. xD