Shooting a Humming Bird

[philiefay]

I have a humming bird nest outside my front window and have shot some pretty cool footage thus far. I set it on 60 FPS but it still does not look slow motion. Anyone have any ideas how to capture the real slow mo??? Would it involve the syncro scan?? if so any idea of settings to use....?? Thanks for your help.

 

[THoff]

You can slow the buggers down by setting the camera to record 24PN and setting the framerate to 60, but don't expect to freeze motion.

 

[Blaine]

They're fast little buggers, I'd suggest a shotgun with a wide pattern...:evil:

 

[philiefay]

Thanks. This is the effect I am trying to achieve: http://www.naturefootage.com/nature...collection=Nature+Footage~Ocean+Footage&Go=Go

If it does not come up just typr humming bird slow motion into the search box here: http://www.naturefootage.com/

Thanks.

 

[ChipG]

Wwhhooaaa!

Blaine,

Stop!

Do you mean a 12 gauge gun for the bird? Or a nice shotgun microphone?

Got pretty good footage of a production I'm working on with two Red's with the family bird flying away... Geez, I feel like I'm goning to be hit by lightnig....

 

[ChipG]

You can slow the buggers down by setting the camera to record 24PN and setting the framerate to 60, but don't expect to freeze motion.

Im all for that but also try 1080 60i...

 

[THoff]

Thanks. This is the effect I am trying to achieve: http://www.naturefootage.com/nature...collection=Nature+Footage~Ocean+Footage&Go=Go

If it does not come up just typr humming bird slow motion into the search box here: http://www.naturefootage.com/

Thanks.

2.5x overcranking isn't going tobe enough for that.

 

[ChipG]

2.5x overcranking isn't going tobe enough for that.

Wow!

That was shot by a camera called a "Phantom" you can rent them. I rented one for a week to capture lightnig at 1000 fps... In a high resolution...

 

[Justin Kuhn]

I rented one for a week to capture lightnig at 1000 fps... In a high resolution...

I wanna see that.

 

[philiefay]

Thanks gents.....Chip, I wanna see that footage to!

 

[ChipG]

Thanks gents.....Chip, I wanna see that footage to!

I'm in the prosses of selling my show / footage and am in a liitle trouble for posting footage I shot with the hvx OIS off and on in another post...

Send me a PM.

 

[xyouthx]

yeah you definitely need a phantom to achieve that. They came to my internship to perform a demo in the studio of the phantom, and it's simply incredible.

 

[ChipG]

But wait!

My little Casio EXILIM can shoot 1200fps but the image is sooo small...

 

[hdimages.ca]

the humming birds wings beat when hovering at 72 beats per sec . to much for 2.5 time of the hvx.