Phantom cameras: A Sense of Time

If you want to see thing as you never seen them before, if you want to have a different perception of time and the world around us then see it trough a Phantom camera. Yes, Phantom cameras are the wolds most “slow motion” cameras available at the moment. They are super precise and very professional cameras that can reach an astonishing 1500 frames-per-second. That is way they are been used in science and even the army owns one of them. This camera is brilliant for capturing wild life and sports, enabling us to see lots of details that our natural eye is not able to see. You can see the beat of the wings of a Colibri, or freeze a gymnast in the air. The most beauty full things to film with this camera are maybe just pure drops of water leaking or the flames of a faire. Anyway there are plenty of things that you can film with this camera giving them an incredible artistic view. Just film the explosion of a balloon full of coloured water, ad the right music to it and it will become a mind blowing experience for the eye and mind. This camera are being increasingly used in adverts, music videos an feature films breaking new cinematic grounds and is seems becoming a must in the industry because everybody is using it. But as all the best things these cameras are definitely not accessible to everyone and actually you are looking around an estimated 150,000 pounds for the top range Phantom HD Gold with lenses and every thing. This little jewel is definitely the preferred digital video camera for high-speed imaging in the production industry. The body is relatively small, it records up to 1000 frames-per-second at1920 x 1080 or 1500 fps at 1280 x 720 and it has a shutter speed as fast as six microseconds. There are only 100 Phantom HD cameras in use around the world today and for this price you can forget to buy one and rather look on renting, that is already very expensive. There is Just one company in the Uk that sells and makes a full service of this camera an is based in London. This cameras are relatively easy to use but need a very precise and sensible hand to handle that is way if you rent it out it comes with a professional technician that runs it. There are also more accessible Phantom cameras like the Miro eX1 that is the smallest of the range it is a sort of SLR camera and cost only 10,000 pounds and provides the perfect balance of resolution, speed, and light-sensitivity in a self-contained solution enabling anyone to capture high quality, slow-motion movies. A built-in touch screen display is used to set up the camera as well as immediately view results. The included 2GB Removable Compact Flash card provides safe, portable storage for valuable slow-motion content. Another camera available in between these two is the middle range Phantom v710 that comes with 8 GB of high-speed dynamic Ram standard or a bigger 32 GB version. The segmented memory of this camera allows to divide this into up to 64 segments that means you can take several multiple shots without the need to download data from it.

References:
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