Slow-Motion(ish) Marines

I need more light for the full high-speed shutter to work to get even slower slo-mo, but these are OKish for a hand held camera.

One problem of high-speed shooting to get slo-motion on my camera is that I only have 10 seconds in which to aim, focus and capture the complete picture.


Here we go..... a Dwarf White Shrimp in Slo-Motion



Now, some Nemos in slow-motion (ps.....that is not a real coral: I simply got inspired by Fish Tank Kings and make a big fuss over plastic coral )



Finally, for now, a Fan Worm in slow mo being washed by the filter current.



Ian

nice videos ian, thanks for posting. it is hard to detect the slow motion effect with these subjects though, as it just looks like normal movement.

Very nice, it's so relaxing to watch them in slow motion. Would be perfect as a screensaver or maybe as therapy, especially the shrimp.

Melander

Forgot to ask.

Is there a camera you would recommend for shooting fish in this way, that is not too expensive?

Many thanks,

Andreas

They were done on a compact camera, but there are too many problems with the focus on compacts that can make things awkward for using the very high-speed slo-mo setting.
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The shots above took 10 seconds to film (there is a limit to how long you can shoot in high-speed).....and in that time you have to focus the compact (not easy on any compact camera when in macro mode).

The lighting on that is TMC L.E.D.s....they are fine for shooting at 30 fps.
But when it comes to shooting at 120 fps or 240 fps, the lighting is way too low and it is almost impossible to focus within the time allowed to focus using a compact camera.

I have also have a Casio compact that shoots high-speed slow-motion at 1,000 fps....pretty mega, but the lighting requirements on the compact cameras would probably boil the seawater within 10 seconds.
The manual focusing on that camera is even worse than the Nikon compact.

So, if money is not a problem, Milander, then I'd recommend seeing if any of the DSLRs offer high-speed video (non did when I got my compacts that did) OR, better still, get a pro video camera that does.

There is no point in getting a normal consumer class of video camera: the video function on my Nikon compact beats all of the consumer video cameras hands-down and the video function on many DSLRs is almost getting as good as the video function on even the better compacts.

If were 30 years younger, then I would definitely invest in a pro- or semi-HD video camera.

When it comes to photography, I have little interest in photographing my fish in the aquarium and so I never really put much effort into it. My photo interests lie elsewhere.

ian

Thanks you for the advice Ian!

Money is always an issue these days but at the same time I have no interest in buying something really cheap that does not do the job either.

I am in no rush and in my position I would rather educate myself and then follow what happening on market, knowing what to look out for and so on. Perhaps the HD-videos recorders will drop in price as time goes by.

It looks like we might get a new video camera on one of the companies i do work for(nothing fancy) and I'm hoping to have a go with it just to try it out.

Andreas