Kuriositas: High Speed

Locked in a Vegas Hotel Room with a Phantom Flex

What would you do if you found yourself in a Las Vegas hotel room with no company other than a Phantom Flex high speed digital camera? Stay up all night and experiment?

That is exactly what Tom Guilmette did and the result is this astonishing piece of film.

This is shot at an amazing 2564 frames per second. If you would like to see any more of Guilmette’s work, please visit his archives.

Image Credit Lazlo Photography

High speed photography is almost one hundred years old – the first recorded attempts were made in Germany in 1916. Almost a century later the technology available to us has changed dramatically, allowing us to see moments in time captured in a way that we could never have experienced before. Here are twenty amazing example of high speed photography. You will guess what some are in an instant – others may leave you rubbing your chin a little!