High Speed Video Clips

by Dean Baird

Casio announced the EX-F1 in late 2007. It was the first consumer camera I knew about that featured high speed video capture. Normal video is capured and played back at 30 frames per second (30 fps). The Casio EX-F1 can capture at 300 fps, 600 fps, and 1200 fps. As always, their as sacrifices to the higher frame rates. Resolution and image quality suffer with the increased frame rates. And you need lots of light for 600 fps and 1200 fps captures.

Here is my growing collection of high speed video clips in its current state. Click the links or thumbnails to access the QuickTime file. For some reason (not yet understood by me), QuickTime Pro won't export a still from a rotated video clip. Any attempt fails with an error message of "Failed: qtkitErrorCatchAll (-3954)."

Enjoy. And cheers to Harold Edgerton!

Fun with Water Balloons	Balloon Execution on Bench 600 fps	Balloon Bounce 600 fps	Vertical Balloon Execution 600 fps
GeyserTube: The Bottle	Mentos Mints into Decaf Diet Coke 600 fps	Vertical: Mentos Mints into Sprite Zero 600 fps
Tuning Fork	125-Hz Tuning Fork 1200 fps	125-Hz Tuning Fork into Water 1200 fps

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Updated May 2008.