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, there are sacrifices at the higher frame rates. Resolution and image quality suffer with the increased frame rates. The JPEG artifacts bring static backgrounds to life. 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 to access subject-specific pages. That's where you'll find the QuickTime files.

Enjoy. And cheers to Harold Edgerton!

300 FRAMES PER SECOND - Series 1
PhyzLab: Inertia in Action	Egg Toss Competition	Thermal Physics	Bubbles Popping

600 FRAMES PER SECOND - Series 1
Mentos-Soda Geyser	Water Balloons	Milk Drops	National Parks

1200 FRAMES PER SECOND - Series 1
Tuning Forks	Wimshurst Machine	Air Rockets

300 FRAMES PER SECOND - Series 2
Van de Graaff Bubbles	Bed of Nails

30-300 FRAMES PER SECOND
National Parks

Phyz links

Dean's Phyz Website
The Blog of Phyz

Updated March 2009.