It's not enough for pocket cams to just shoot high-def video any more. Oh no, they have to do something fancy with it, like Casio's
EX-FS10 and
EX-FC100, both offering capture at up to 1,000 fps. The latter of those two, with its 5x optical zoom and 9.1 megapixel resolution, has been given the review treatment ahead of its US release, and the little burst-shooter seems to deliver. 30fps stills at 6 megapixels look clear and sharp, while watching the cam switch from 30fps to 210fps video on the fly is still an impressive thing to see -- especially when it's UNLV cheerleaders we're watching in slow-mo, as embedded below. Low-light photography was not found to be this cam's strong point, but it rarely is with shooters this size, so if you're looking for something to capture your own (well-lit) Mythbusters segments with at home, and you have about $400 to spare, this could be your cam. Go team!
posted March 6th 2009 9:29AM
Lovely
the camera looks nice too...
dammit that was supposed to be a reply to Arthur
Maybe recording some sports would be better than to record cheerleaders...
no, it would absolutely not be...
You're either a girl or gay (not that there's anything wrong with that)
This just in: Nope, you're wrong.
Yea, I am going to have to agree with the complete appropriateness of the cheerleader footage.
Appropriately titillating, that is.
There is nothing more beautiful than bouncing blondes with boobs in slow-mo!
I concede. The video is awesome. Here's my explanation for my post.
I was at school when I first read this. High school teachers don't like kids using school time to watch boobs in slo-mo. Twice, my reply from school wasn't posted. Sorry.
That video is 18 kinds of awesome!
Very lovely!
Dave Chappelle was right, everything looks better in slow motion.
I like it when gadgetry is combined with hot girls. Too bad my girlfriend is about as high tech as a 12th century peasant :(
and as hygenic ;D
@thebomberman
Yeah, right.
hehehehe
There was a camera in this article?....
oh yeah!
Engadget's best post ever.
So umm... Is there a way that I can download this video to keep?
OH MY GOD THEY ARE SO SKINNY.,... >:O
Well it's nice to see UNLV's human cloning program is coming along nicely...
...or are they Casio's newest humanoid animatronic demonstration... I'm not sure.
I watched one of these demos at the Casio booth at CES. They handed out a bunch of tethered cameras to random spectators, then trotted out the UNLV squad. They displayed some of the results for the crowd after a few minutes. The guy in front of me had one of the cameras, and he immediately zoomed in tight on a pair of gyration-friendly cheerleader elements on one particular young lady. Surprisingly, his clip was not one of those broadcast on the big screen.
Holy god, can you guys get a shallower DOF?
In the middle did anyone else feel like a perv for watching this thing in the high fps capture mode......
isn't that what you call a man?
Ugh! This was about to be my next camera, but only 37mm wide??? SOB!
Anyone noticed the flickering background while the video is shot in high speed mode? That doesn't look very comfortable.
It's due to the crappy lighting which is probably running at a Hz that's close to the camera's rate. Conference halls tend to have this kind of lighting because it's much cheaper.
Most places like this use fluorescent lighting, which flickers fast enough that your eyes normally don't notice it. When captured on film or video, the flickering can be exaggerated as seen in this clip.
Best. Marketing. Ever.
The EX-F1 and other similar spec'd cameras have annoying dimensions constraints on the high speed video mode. It wasn't clear on the Casio press release if this model has them as well. From what I can decipher from the official spec sheet, this baby shoots 1000 fps at 640x480! While it's not even quite SD dimensions (720x480 or 540), I'll take it! Can anyone confirm?
I got the camera yesterday;
1st point, you really want good lighting to get less than grainy video.
Any artificial light and you get the flickering on the background -- as seen in that video.
210 fps = 480x360
420 fps = 224 x 168
1000 fps = wait for it.... 224 x 64 (yes... 64).
I expect you'll need very godo light for the 1000 fps.
Then there's 30-210 mode where you record in 30 fps -- normal, and just push the right on the direction control and it slows down the action -- as per the video in this review -- very good.
Play back from camera thru TV is a little jerky -- not too bad though. Best viewing the AVI on PC though.
Nice camera.... couple fo other neat Best Shot modes and neat funtion to take 30 fps stills and either save all or select what to save. I wish they had the split frame feature I had on my old S1 (if I recall the model) where you took half the picture then it overlayed that ha;lf onto display to take the other half i.e. to get me and my wife in the shot with no-one about, you use that feature.... was very cool and I never seen it on any other camera since.
K-man.
Afterwards, they drenched all the cheerleaders with water, then recorded them in the same manner.
Impressive ! ! It must create hundreds of amateur movie maker to
produce pretty dynamic images----- and it can be done with £400 cost ? !
Amazing ! !
I say this is a new paradigm in camera reviewing
any links to vids of the 1000fps examples?
this is a great addition if you ask me.