Saturday, December 13, 2008

A camera that makes time stand still



Casio’s coup was recognizing that the necessary tech—fast image sensors and processors, big memory buffers to hold the images until the memory card records them—already existed in consumer-grade camera components. And it bet correctly that amateurs like me would trade a little quality to get their hands on this kind of high-speed power.
The resolution and image quality aren’t as high as in a pricier rig, but the EX-F1 is small enough to carry everywhere. As a result, one can catch explosive chemical reactions, the acrobatics of dragonflies, and a host of other things that happen at faster-than-human speed.

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