Silent Boom!

Well well, a year and a half since my last post! In that time, still no animation!

But I have experimented with a new Casio EX-FH25 digital camcorder with high-speed settings! It operates on the US NTSC video standard, so 30-fps normal speed and a standard definition of 640x480 pixels (and HD as well, but that's irrelevant to this matter).

It goes at up to a phenomenal-sounding 1000-fps but at that speed the image is so tiny as to be utterly worthless. The most useful high-speed settings are 120-fps at 640x480 pixels, and 240-fps at 448x336 pixels. The latter sounds like it might be too small for decent results, but these two tests were shot at that standard and are pretty acceptable IMHO, certainly for experimenting with and for youtube (there's no sound):



Before that, I helped my old mucker Joe Scaramanga make a one-minute version of Die Hard for Empire film magazine's Done In 60 Seconds! competition. Not only did I appear as Fat Alan Rickman (yes, that's me in the still below, trying to act), but I also contributed the roof-top explosion (shot on Joe's Sanyo Xacti HD1010 camcorder at 150-fps: you should note that blurb for this camera claims 300-fps but closer inspection revealed that to be 300 fields-per-second, and therefore 150 frames-per-second):