Whirlochre: It's such a beautiful film; pity it's in black and white, but I suspect that's necessary in order to get that many frames per second.
Writtenwyrdd: I usually flitter away from YouTube clips longer than about 3 minutes, but this one kept me riveted. It wasn't just beautiful, I found it so fascinating to watch the interplay of materials.
Wow. I kept figuring I'd just watch one more, then I found myself at the full ten minutes. I can't wait to show my boys, who will think it's the coolest thing ever.
I especially love the spiderwebbing glass around halfway through, and some of the ice blocks and liquids. Wow.
Saw this yesterday and it was cool, the music was a nice complement to it.
I like how it looks like allot of the lead bullets actually melt. where you see the steel once punching through.
You are probably right about the BW being to get the FPS needed. there are cameras that use Very fast film, and these scenes are usually lit to extreme levels. to get enought light.
I saw one camera that actually used explosives to spin a arm with a mirror on it. The spinning arm advanced the frame taken and at the end of one 180deg arc there was a steel bar to shatter the mirror so as the arm kept spinning the mirror wouldn't double expose the film.
PJD: I've been wondering whether any of the instructors at work would want to use this in their physics courses. It's just too cool not to share with kids!
Sarf: Ooh, exploding cameras; how cool!
I haven't checked the site responsible for the footage yet, but I am curious how they got so many FPS.
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A truly great resource for budget sci-fi film makers...
That is some awesome firepower, and the footage is even better.
Whirlochre: It's such a beautiful film; pity it's in black and white, but I suspect that's necessary in order to get that many frames per second.
Writtenwyrdd: I usually flitter away from YouTube clips longer than about 3 minutes, but this one kept me riveted. It wasn't just beautiful, I found it so fascinating to watch the interplay of materials.
Wow. I kept figuring I'd just watch one more, then I found myself at the full ten minutes. I can't wait to show my boys, who will think it's the coolest thing ever.
I especially love the spiderwebbing glass around halfway through, and some of the ice blocks and liquids. Wow.
Saw this yesterday and it was cool, the music was a nice complement to it.
I like how it looks like allot of the lead bullets actually melt. where you see the steel once punching through.
You are probably right about the BW being to get the FPS needed. there are cameras that use Very fast film, and these scenes are usually lit to extreme levels. to get enought light.
I saw one camera that actually used explosives to spin a arm with a mirror on it. The spinning arm advanced the frame taken and at the end of one 180deg arc there was a steel bar to shatter the mirror so as the arm kept spinning the mirror wouldn't double expose the film.
It was cool, but a one shot camera.
PJD: I've been wondering whether any of the instructors at work would want to use this in their physics courses. It's just too cool not to share with kids!
Sarf: Ooh, exploding cameras; how cool!
I haven't checked the site responsible for the footage yet, but I am curious how they got so many FPS.
Quite fascinating. I'm like Pete - I thought one more and stayed for the whole show.
Not sure why it's taken me so long to visit you, but you're on my blog roll now.
With my 2 Bachelors - Law Enforcement and Physics - this works very well for me.
Sarah: Likewise; I'm not sure why I didn't have you on my Google Reader, but you are now! (I do very much like your poetry, by the way.)
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