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Photron (see link) makes a camera that shoots an amazing 109,500 frames per second. That is, in just one second, it can shoot enough frames for a 76-minute film.
Now, 76 minutes of a man on the street in mid-sneeze is interesting only for the first 2 minutes. After that? Boring! (A la Warhol's Empire
State...)
Mount your camera on a long, sturdy line that stretches a long, long way down a busy street and add a rail-gun-like mechanism to keep the camera moving at a scary rate for the 1 second.
Now you get a graceful 'matrix'-like tracking shot of people people on the street, caught in mid-life.
The interesting thing is that you see all these people pass you by over 76 minutes -- eating, laughing, talking, driving, yelling, crying -- but only 1 second of city life has passed in the film.
Maybe it is just me, but I'd pay to see this movie.
Then again, I liked Baraka.
1000fps to 109,500 fps
http://news.thomasn...om/fullstory/458599 It does 1000fps in high-res and up to 109,500 in low res [not_only_but_also, Jan 27 2005]
Baraka
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103767/ [not_only_but_also, Jan 27 2005]
Empire
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0196530/ An 8 hour movie of the Empire State Building [not_only_but_also, Jan 27 2005]
HB: "Cheap Slow Motion Camera"
cheap_20Slow_20motion_20cam The Photron has come up before here. [bristolz, Jan 27 2005]
(?) High speed cameras used to record H-bomb detonations
http://www.aracnet..../wetokian/trap1.htm oral history of the H- bomb tests [csea, Jan 27 2005]
Frozen Moment Technique
http://www.digitala.../frozen_moment.html [Worldgineer, Jan 27 2005]
The Quickening Rule
_22The_20Quickening_22_20Rule by mrkillboy. [calum, Feb 01 2005]
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There are rotary mirror cameras that operate in the millions of frames per second. Up to 5,000,000 fps. Nuclear weapons research drove the development. |
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Oh, and they shoot on film. |
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Wow, [bris] that is cool. Now I can re-name the film 'The Instant'! |
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Would the mirror-camera fit on my rail-gun-wire? |
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I don't know. Will a Toyota Sienna fit on your railgun wire? That's roughly the size of the rotary mirror cameras. |
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Serendipity / synchronicity, I happened to be reading up today on the history of a family friend who was involved in the A- and H-bomb development. |
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Back in 1956, they had cameras capable of a million frames / sec. see [link] |
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I think the cable weight would lead the camera to swoop downward toward the crowd. |
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As it accelerates it would show people moving in Zeno fashion. |
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Try mounting several thousand cheap digital cameras in a long line, and set them off electronically one after the other. It would obviously cost more than a small sum, but they could be set to go off again quite soon, and the lighting need not be special. |
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That's sort of how they shoot effects like those in the Matrix. I'll look for a link. |
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I saw a Zen film much like this. It was twenty minutes long and was just an extreme close up of a popcorn popping in some oil. You couldn't really tell what it was until ten minutes in. |
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I see room for a sequel -
How about "the Second Second" |
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I never even saw the first yet. (+) |
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This is one of the best ideas I've seen in a while... Or perhaps it just appeals to me in all the right ways... |
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I really think shooting (har) the camera across the street at a scary speed using the railgun is part of what makes this idea appealing. |
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//Photron (see link) makes a camera that shoots an amazing 109,500 frames per second.// I'd be very, very surprised. Shoots at a rate of 109,500 frames per second, more likely. |
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<aside> [bris]: the anno is meaning "109,500 individually amazing frames" as opposed to ... an amazing fact (109,500 frames per second) </aside> |
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More likely an amazing 109,500 boring frames per second. |
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Sorry [bris], was what I meant to say was "it'll shoot, say, a hundred frames in 100/109500 of a second", but I'd be astonished it could complete a second's worth of shooting at that rate, without some seriously wide memory. |
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I read it the same way that [Jinbish] did. |
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How about if this second were the second second, starting a fraction of a second after the first second, which would be a 2,000,000 fps shot from an inverted rocket sled. The first second would look as described here, and the second second would show the same people just after a mach 8 flyby, with their lunch suspended in mid air, etc. |
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(No, I didnt do the math) |
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[Feignman] the camera is moving, and therefore the picture as well. Unless by picture you mean a mural several miles long, in which case the only advantage here is the chair. |
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//Unless by picture you mean a mural several miles long//
That's exactly what this would be. Since the camera is moving //at a scary rate//, and with the high rate of camera operation, you could just take a mural as long as your //rail-gun-like mechanism//, and pan along it for an hour and get the same effect. |
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