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

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For-A Unveils First 2/3-Sensor Camera to Shoot 4K at 1,000 FPS

For-A has announced a new dual-sensor 2/3-inch 4K camera that allows for up to 1,000 frames per second with "no sacrifice on brightness" of the image that comes with traditional single-sensor cameras using broadcast lenses.

For-A is a Japanese company that develops, manufactures, and sells professional video equipment for various applications. Its latest camera, the FT-ONE-SS4K, is designed for live broadcast but features a unique, patented design that allows for Ultra-HD 4K video to be recorded at up to 1,000 frames per second using a new imaging system that uses two sensors and a prism.

The idea of multiple sensors in a broadcast camera isn't a new one, but it has fallen out of favor in recent years. Multi-sensor cameras were once the go-to for use in broadcast and used three separate sensors to capture blue, green, and red color ranges. As explained by Red Shark, practically all sports broadcasting, a majority of news, and more or less anything that's ever been shot in a multi-camera studio had been shot on cameras with 2/3-inch, three-chip sensor designs.

This style of camera is more complex and breaks from the modern preference of shallow depth of fields, but on the flipside offered a camera that could perform better for its sensor size. Single large sensor cameras do have their advantages, like depth of field and better dynamic range.

"The thing is, it's quite possible to achieve similarly improved photosite size on a smaller (effective) sensor by using three," Phil Rhodes writes on Red Shark. "We get three times the sensor area for photosites, but we don't need to project an image that's actually any bigger than the size of one of them."

Because smaller projected image sizes require smaller lenses to achieve the same f-stop and framing, the advantages are considerable for broadcast purposes. Still, they are less common lately and have generally fallen out of favor in lieu of single-sensor cameras. But the switch wasn't without consequence, as the lenses originally designed for those multi-sensor cameras were just adapted for use on single-sensor cameras.

Typically, high frame rate videography already requires faster shutter speeds and therefore reduces the amount of light that a sensor can capture between each frame. Compounding on this issue is that many broadcasting organizations now use cameras that utilize a PL-mount, which is common with the filmmaking cameras often employed by broadcast organizations. In order to use the previous 2/3 B4 lens mount that was originally found on the older multi-sensor cameras, a converting optic is required between the camera and the lens which usually results in further light loss.

For-A explains that the new technology it is using in the FT-OONE-SS4K uses two sensors behind a prism block, which it calls a "revolutionary technology" that eliminates the need for a converter by accepting B4 mount lenses natively as well as supporting high-resolution high frame rate capture. The company claims this is the first 2/3-inch sensor camera that can shoot 4K at up to 1,000 frames per second.

"The FT-ONE-SS4K 4K ultra-high-speed camera uses a new imaging system with market standard 2/3-inch B4 mount, not a single chip with a PL mount like competitive cameras," For-A Americas President Satoshi Kanemura says.

"There's absolutely no sacrifice on brightness. While a single sensor loses 2.5 stops brightness using a lens conversion adaptor, a 2/3-inch platform provides a deep depth of field, allowing the user to easily focus, even at over 100x zoom."

In short, For-A says it has managed to combine the benefits of both multi-sensor systems and single sensor cameras into one.

For-A says the FT-ONE-SS4K is ideal for sports producers who need to offer simultaneous live 4K Ultra HD output and 4K Ultra HD (up to 1,000 frames per second) super slow-motion playback output within a conventional studio camera workflow.

The technological advancements in this area are likely foreign to the average person, but new technology in camera and sensor development can have rippling effects on what can or should be developed for everyday use in the future.

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If Every Second Lasted an Hour, This is What Things Would Look Like

What if every second lasted one hour instead? What would our world look like? Thanks to the powerful technology of ultra-high-speed cameras, here's a fascinating video that shows exactly what things would look like.

The Slow Mo Guys, who have a whopping 14+ million subscribers on YouTube, ordinarily shoot their slow-motion videos at 1,000 frames per second and then play back the footage at 25 frames per second. If you do the math, that means each real-world second captured by the camera turns into 40 seconds of slow-motion footage.

For this experiment, however, The Slow Mo Guys used the insanely fast (and insanely expensive) Phantom TMX 7510 high-speed camera to capture moments at a whopping 90,000 frames per second.

If you divide 90,000 by 25, you get 3,600 seconds, or 60 minutes, or 1 hour. That means every real-world second captured at this frame rate produces one hour of video when played back at 25fps.

"At this speed, a minute would last two-and-a-half days," Gavin Free says. "An hour would last five months. And a day would come in at just under a decade, at nine years and ten months. […] A month would last around three centuries, and a year would be about 3,597 years."

In the video above, we see a number of shots in "ordinary" slow-motion at first before they're slowed down to 1-second-to-1-hour slow motion -- things like watch splashing or falling, a guy falling into a swimming pool, a match being lit, a water balloon being popped.

"Does anyone else get slightly filled with dread imagining how bad it would be to be stuck at this speed," the Slow Mo Guys write. "Even if you were surrounded by people you wouldn’t be able to communicate with anyone. It would be so lonely.

"It would take you so long to move anywhere. You wouldn’t be able to let anyone know what was happening to you. To them you’d be moving at normal speed but acting strangely…"

You can find more of The Slow Mo Guys' slow-motion videos on their YouTube channel.

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Watch Vintage Flashbulbs Burst in 100,000 FPS Super-Slow Motion

Filmmaker Ryan McIntyre recently had the opportunity to use the Phantom TMX 7510 slow-motion camera's 100,000 frames per second and combined it with a Laowa 24mm 2x Macro Probe lens to capture spectacular footage of vintage flashbulbs bursting brightly.

McIntyre operates the video production company CineSpeed that focuses solely on capturing high-speed images. He and his company use Phantom high-speed cameras to capture remarkable images that usually happen too fast for the human eye to see. For his most recent project, McIntyre decided to capture close-up, slow-motion footage of vintage flashbulbs bursting, as he had never seen what the reaction looked like from this perspective.

The idea for the film came after he watched a low-resolution video of a lightbulb blowing up. He added it to a list of ideas he had for when he got the opportunity to use a TMX camera in the future. That future eventually came, and he got to work making his idea into reality.

"Our original plan for this shoot was to see if we could capture vintage flash bulbs exploding, but no matter what we tried we could not make that happen," McIntyre tells PetaPixel.

Flashbulbs aren't designed to blow up -- quite the opposite, actually. And despite trying multiple different voltages and extreme temperature changes, McIntyre and his team were unable to make them explode. Despite the deviation from the original plan, they were able to capture something quite extraordinary nonetheless.

"During testing, to our surprise, we captured something much better," he says. "The first extreme shot, when we exposed correctly, completely shocked us when we played back the video. The macro footage seemed almost otherworldly."

McIntyre says that he and his team used two specialty arc lamp lights to light the flashbulbs more evenly and give them more detail in the shadows. Specifically, they used the MR2400 from Megaray. To fire the flashbulbs, McIntyre rigged them to a nine-volt battery, which he says worked perfectly.

"The flashbulbs we used were extremely bright, and exposing correctly for them took some trial and error," he explains. "After a few failed attempts, I decided to close the lens the whole way down and speed up the shutter of the camera to the fastest it could go, and that is when we captured one of the best shots."

The footage seen in the video above required the camera to expose for just 95 nanoseconds per frame, and the lens had to be set to an aperture of f/40.

For more from Ryan McIntyre and CineSpeed, make sure to subscribe to their YouTube Channel, follow them on Instagram and Facebook, or visit their website.

_Image credits: Photos by Ryan McIntyre and used with permission. _

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Calming 6,000 FPS Footage of 7 Stunningly Beautiful Moth Species

Dr. Adrian Smith regularly publishes unique looks at insects using high-speed cameras. In his latest video, Dr. Smith focuses his lens on seven stunningly beautiful species of moths and captures their movements at a blistering 6,000 frames per second.

Dr. Smith has published several videos in the past that use slow motion to reveal unusual movements by some of nature's tiniest creatures. He has published two separate videos that show what different insects look like as they take off, either by jumping or flying (or some combination of the two) as well as a video that features the fastest front-flipping insect and another that required shooting at 73,000 frames per second in order to reveal what exactly what taking place.

Compared to those previous videos, 6,000 frames per second might not seem like that much, but it is more than enough to reveal the subtle movements of the different moth species (from their wings to the smallest changes to other parts of their bodies). When combined with Dr. Smith's voice and a soothing musical backdrop, the result is a fascinating set of clips that is as informative as it is calming.

"I think all of science boils down to trying to do things in order to see and appreciate the world in a new way. Most of the time, that means doing experiments, gathering data, or adjusting hypotheses," Dr. Smith says. "But sometimes, I think the most useful thing I can do as a scientist is to point the fancy science cameras at some moths flapping their wings in front of a purple backdrop."

Rosy Maple Moth

When slowed to such an extent, an action that would normally blip by the human eye can be carefully examined. The plump little maple moth seems to almost wobble with an air of uncertainty, something that would not have been visible without the help of modern high-speed cameras.

The video contains seven different species of moths whose patterns and movements can be closely examined: the rosy maple moth (dryocampa rubicunda), the polyphemus moth (antheraea polyphemus), a dark marathyssa (marathyssa inficita), a Virginian tiger moth (spilpsoma virginica), a beautiful wood-nymph (Eudryas grata), the white-dotted prominent (nadata gibbosa), and a blinded sphinx (paonias exaecata).

Dark Marathyssa Polyphemus Moth Beautiful Wood Nymph

"I mean, whose day isn't going to be better after watching a pink and yellow rosy maple moth fly in super slow motion?"

In speaking with PetaPixel , Dr. Smith says that this collection of moths shot with this high frame rate isn't something he thinks exists elsewhere, which makes it a rare treat that he is happy to share with those interested to learn more about the insects of the world.

For more from Dr. Adrian Smith, make sure to subscribe to his Ant Lab YouTube Channel.

_Image credits: Photo by Dr. Adrian Smith and used with permission. _

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The ‘Entry-Level’ Phantom TMX 5010 Can Shoot 1.16 Million FPS

Vision Research has announced a new "entry-level" slow-motion camera, the Phantom TMX 5010. While considered an entry-level system, the TMX 5010 can still push up to 1.16 million frames per second.

The TMX 5010 can hit that 1.16 million frame per second number at reduced resolutions but is capable of 50,725 frames per second at 1280 x 800 resolution. Using a backside-illuminated high-speed sensor and Phantoms latest technology, the company claims this camera is "one of the most versatile, full-featured cameras making it ideal for a wide variety of applications."

The Phantom TMX 5010 is the latest entry in the TMX series of cameras including the TMX 6410 which can shoot up to 1.5 million frames per second and the TMX 7510 -- announced in March of 2021 -- which can shoot up to 1.75 million frames per second, (both at reduced resolutions). Each of these systems make use of a backside-illuminated (BSI) sensor and have a max resolution of 720p (1280 x 800 pixels).

The new TMX 5010 camera comes with up to 512GB of RAM which allows users to buffer the last few seconds of what the slow-motion camera captures and the system can reportedly reach a 95 nanoseconds minimum exposure when enabling the "FAST" option and can achieve a processing throughput of nearly 50Gpx/second. This means that researchers using this system can access higher resolution images at much higher frame rates than they previoiusly been able to.

The company states that the frame rates are "Actual" with no interpolation and 2 x 2 Binning Mode provides "double the vertical resolution at high frame rates for added flexibility". While this FAST mode may not be useful for filmmakers, it is ideal for scientific research which is what this system seems intended for.

Despite the "entry-level" tagline for the TMX 5010 (which is shipping now), no pricing information has been released on it or the other cameras in the line-up. Current estimations put it between $60,000 to $80,000 -- but it could be higher -- whichi puts it out of reach for most individual photographers or filmmakers. It is definitely a system more suited for rentals on a per-case basis unless it is being leveraged for research where this type of slow-motion recording is useful on a daily basis.

Interested buyers will have to submit a quote request to Vision Research directly. Alternatively, the T3610 version which shoots a modest 38,040 frames per second (or 875,000 frames per second at reduced resolution) will begin shipping later in August.

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