Super Slo-Mo

I've written about my friends, Rick and Lynne, in New Jersey several times - the ones with the Bernese Mountain Dogs, kitties Sam and E-bay, and I did a post on bears with photos of their occasional bear visitors.  Rick works for Vision Research which is now part of Ametek.  They develop and produce special high speed cameras - the Phantom line.  The high speed cameras show things in super slow motion.  Sounds counter intuitive, I know.  Anyway, in February Rick and Lynne are going to the Scientific and Engineering Academy Awards in Beverly Hills because those cameras have earned several of the company's designers and developers an award important to the progress of making motion pictures!  You can click on the Vision Research link above if you're interested in the details.

If you've seen either of the Sherlock Holmes movies with Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law, you've seen these cameras at work in the fabulous slow motion segments.  They've also been used in many commercials and other movies.

Here are a couple of links to see really cool slow motion videos using their cameras.  For butterflies and birds, click here (there's wonderful footage of a harpy eagle at the end).  For horses, click here.  Also you can click here so see Vision Research's gallery of videos for many more.