Tag: slow motion

March 26, 2015 at 1:41 am

If You Spin a CD Fast Enough it Will Explode. Here’s What That Looks Like at 170,000 FPS

If You Spin a CD Fast Enough it Will Explode. Here's What That Looks Like at 170,000 FPS

The critical ‘spin rate’ for a CD is 23,000 RPM. Anything more and the CD will shatter and explode into hundreds of pieces. The Slow Mo Guys decided to film this phenomenon with a Phantom v2511, which—at its lowest resolution—is capable of filming at an incomprehensible 1 million frames per second (FPS). For this…

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March 4, 2015 at 5:31 pm

Incredible Video Shows Just How Low the Planes at Maho Beach Get

Incredible Video Shows Just How Low the Planes at Maho Beach Get

View this post on Instagram Flying frequently tends to make one either bitter or obsessed with aviation. I fall into the latter category. Visiting Maho Beach in Saint Marteen was always on my bucket list. It's as crazy as it looks — planes landing just feet from a public beach. A post shared by Paul…

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March 3, 2015 at 1:46 pm

Ink Injected Into Water in 4K Super Slow Motion

Ink Injected Into Water in 4K Super Slow Motion

In the first Ultra High Definition episode of The Slow Mo Guys, Gav and Dan inject coloured ink into a tank of water. If you have a 4K display or UHD TV, fire it up!

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February 18, 2015 at 4:07 pm

Super Slow Motion Music Video Filmed in a Single 5-Second Take

Super Slow Motion Music Video Filmed in a Single 5-Second Take

To create the music video for Siska’s latest single, ‘Unconditional Rebel‘, production company La Planete Rouge travelled in a speeding car at 50 km/h as they passed by 80 actors strategically situated across 80 meters of road. The video was filmed at 1000 fps with a Phantom Flex 4K camera with some extra digital…

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January 31, 2015 at 2:08 pm

Seeing How a Camera Shutter Works at 10,000 FPS

Seeing How a Camera Shutter Works at 10,000 FPS

The Slow Mo Guys shows you how insanely quick the inside of a DSLR camera moves when it takes a picture, by filming it at 10,000 fps. The camera shown is a Canon 7D and the video shows you how a rolling shutter works. Video was shot with a Phantom Flex at 10,000 fps.…

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January 21, 2015 at 10:16 am

If Dominoes Fall, then Stick Bombs Explode. Here’s 13,654 of Them

If Dominoes Fall, then Stick Bombs Explode. Here's 13,654 of Them

Watch a 13,654-piece stick bomb “explode” in this amazing setup by TheDominoKing0197. In the description he says the setup included “cobra weave” but that it consisted mostly of “ortho weave” due to a lack of space.

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December 15, 2014 at 4:41 pm

Super Slow Motion Bridge Demolition

Super Slow Motion Bridge Demolition

Watch demolition experts fell the old Marble Falls Bridge in Central Texas in super slow motion. Photographer Kirk Drummond captured the amazing scene on a Red Epic camera filming at 300 FPS. Over 950 feet of metal truss works collapsed in an eventful four seconds after having been up for nearly 78 years. According…

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November 25, 2014 at 2:41 pm

What Surfing at 1000 Frames per Second Looks Like

What Surfing at 1000 Frames per Second Looks Like

Chris Bryan shot this incredible footage using The Phantom Flex, Phantom Miro M-320S and the new Phantom 4K Flex with Arri Ultra prime lenses. The cameras were used inside Chris’s custom underwater housings. The audio track is Hans Zimmer’s wildly popular song, Time; which is frequently used for anything epic. The opening sequence is…

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November 9, 2014 at 10:30 am

Super Slow Motion Close-Up of Metal Machining

Super Slow Motion Close-Up of Metal Machining

\m/ This is so metal \m/

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September 25, 2014 at 1:39 pm

Super Slow Motion Close-Up of a Tattoo Being Applied

Super Slow Motion Close-Up of a Tattoo Being Applied

Destin from Smarter Every Day outfitted his Phantom Miro Camera with a macro lens to show us an up close view of a tattoo being applied in super slow motion. Leah Farrow of Timepiece Tattoo also helps explains how the two most common tattoo machines work.

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