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Giz reader Robert Woodhead combined two things that I just can’t seem to get sick of seeing: Stuffing Mentos into Diet Coke bottles and the super-slow-mo action of Casio’s EX-F1 camera to create this stunningly beautiful video.

Woodhead compensated for the 1200fps’ paltry 336×96 frame size by stitching four different Mentos tests together, and the results are awesome. Globs, ribbons and rings of Coke that are impossible to track in real time come to life when seen in slow-motion.

Watch out later today for another homemade slow-mo video; things will only get messier. [Robert Woodhead]

Original post by Benny Goldman

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Tomato violence only marks the beginning of my love affair with the Casio’s Exilim EX-F1, aka the Hiro Nakamura supercam. It’s crazy addictive. Last weekend I went looking for fast-moving objects to capture in slow-mo, and in my backyard I came up with a freakin’ menagerie of unexpectedly interesting little beasties.

Everything is a twitch here, a blur there—you have to realize that this whole two-minute video consists of just 10 to 12 seconds of real life, shown at 300fps or 600fps. (1200fps turned out to be too much of a novelty, too dark to be practical, as you can see in the tomato-blender vid.)

Shooting slow-mo takes some getting used to, and because you end up with long stretches of zero movement, the in-cam video editor is not just a luxury but a necessity. In the end, though, everything looks like it’s ready for Discovery Channel. I think that chipmunk’s gonna be a star. [Casio Exilim EX-F1 on Giz]

Original post by Wilson Rothman

newVideoPlayer(”casio300fps_giz.flv”, 475, 376,”");What’s the first thing we did with our Casio Exilim EX-F1, the Hiro Nakamura camera/camcorder that makes time stand still? We recorded a mini Cuisinart laying havoc to some tomatoes. Why? If you have to ask, you probably shouldn’t be here. The top vid is a view of the carnage at 300 frames per second. (As you’ll see, I call my food processor “Hitchcock” because it’s always keeping me in suspense.) Below, additional tomatoes get annihilated at 600fps and then 1200fps, with increasing detail, but decreasing resolution and light.

newVideoPlayer(”casio600fps_giz.flv”, 475, 286,”");This is probably the happiest tradeoff of resolution to slow-mo devastation. The first video records at 512×384, while this one drops you down to a funky widescreen 432×192.
newVideoPlayer(”casio1200fps_giz.flv”, 475, 376,”");The 1200fps setting is pretty much a novelty more than anything else, since you need a ton of light, and it records at an all too wide 336×96. We had to crop it so that it made any kind of sense, but here’s a screengrab of the original vid:There’s more to come with this fun little camera, but we wanted to give you a rather violent taste straight away. You’re welcome. [Casio Exilim EX-F1 on Giz]

Original post by Wilson Rothman