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

Slow motion video of a Canon 5D Mk II DSLR taking a picture. Shot with a Redlake N3 high speed camera at 2,000 frames per second. You can see the mirror lift up, the shutter curtain open and close, and the mirror drop back down. As you can see, the entire image is not captured at the same instant. Instead, the top of the image is captured before the bottom, although the difference is only a few milliseconds.

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[Raydienz]

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

[Zisaar]

No way!

[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) ;-)

[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.

[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.

[AldossariEOS]

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

[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.

[djjudas21]

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

[xavlexav]

great!