Slow motion camera shutter - Canon 5D Mark II 2,000 fps

[Raydienz]

I just came from a trillion frames per second and feel a little unimpressed.

[Bazbo63]

"Slow motion video of a Canon 5D Mk II DSLR taking a picture."

Without a lens, it's not going take much of a picture.

Cool video nonetheless.

[dontwantnochannel]

@Bazbo63; It is still an imaging device, be it an incomplete one to produce a focussed picture. Still, what comes out is a picture (a matrix of multichannel pixels) ;-)

[AldossariEOS]

It's like it should do gun recoil, really amazing.

[djjudas21]

I didn't realise the mirror bounced around so much, nor the shutter curtain flexed.

[djteac]

@djjudas21 thats why you can activate "Mirror lock-up" in those cameras. Which means the camera waits longer so the mirror completely stopped bouncing before it takes the picture, to minimize vibrations. But only useful if its on a tripod.

[videodaddy99]

@djteac the majority of the bouncing happens after the exposure, when the mirror comes back down. That vibration doesn't affect the exposure. It has other negative effects though. The AF depends on the main and sub-mirror to be perfectly stable because it redirects part of the light to the bottom of the camera where the AF sensor is. In case of this camera, the AF has to wait for the mirror to be done with all that bouncing before it can start to work again.

[xavlexav]

great!

[Zisaar]

No way!