phillipjantzen

Yes, it's true Vision Research did release TWO new cameras actually at NAB. The first is the PhantomHD, which is 1920 x 1080 (35mm format width, 24mm x 13.5mm) and will run from 1 - 1000fps at 1 frame increments. the other is the Phantom65, which is the first digital motion camera in a 65mm frame format. It will do 1 - 125fps at the full 4096 x 2440 resolution. Both are 14-bits in color depth. They use hot-swappable flash magazines for recording, or we have some other options too. Oh, they both take pictures too. =) Phil www.visionresearch.com

Oh, btw if you set the frame rate to a muliple of 60 (most likely 50 in europe) the flickering of the lights lines up with the frame rate. what kind of lights were you using?

David, Do you have any work that i can see? I'm always curious to see what everybody is doing with the phantom.

Phil, Your best bet is to do this in high speed. Cracking glass happens quite fast, and it will neer look right writh a standard camera. Most shots like this are taken around 2500fps. if you were to take it at around 5000fps you should be able to see the sound waves actually hitting, distorting, and passing through the other side of the object, which makes quite an effect. And it doesn seem like this can be done in post....just an idea phil

Elhanan, If i could have your contact information i will glady have one of our salesman arrange a demo.... phil

Hi Rogelio, Vision Research also provides a high speed HD Cam for applications such as yours. The V9.0 will shoot at 1600 x 1200 at 1000fps with an exposure time as low as 1 microsecond. We had released it to the TV / Cinema world at NAB 2004, where it did quite well, taking home several awards (which is not bad, considering I basically walked in with one unannouced). The basic lens mount is a nikon F, but PL and B4 mounts are available. There is a Pet shop boys video shot by Green Door Films with a v5.0 (1024 x 1024) which I was rather impressed with, and if i had my guess judging by the amount of slow-mo in the video, the whole video was shot with it. If you would like to know more: Vision Research Phil