More and more videos are popping up online that use high speed cameras. I guess folks are renting them because the only concrete information I can find on cost is ‘you don’t want to know’.

I honestly don’t know anything about technically shooting with a camera like this, but in the past I feel like slo-mo shoots like this always required a studio environment that you could flood with light. I’ve seen some still photographs of old slo-mo shoots that are lit in a way to suggest that the camera was incapable of gathering enough light under what you might consider a ‘normal’ conditions, given the fact that the camera was trying to record hundreds or even tens of thousands of frames every second.

It’s like a still camera. If you’re trying to take a shot at 1/8000th of a second, you best have the aperture wide open, jack the sensitivity of the film up or have a ton of light to work with. Or else you’re going to be well underexposed

Now it seems like the technology for these slo-mo cameras has gotten to the point that they can pretty much work with available light. Pretty amazing.

I want to buy the track that’s in this video but I’m trying to be a good boy.