I-Movix readies 8,000 fps slow-motion camera for Beijing Olympics

Expect some incredibly detailed replays from the Beijing Olympics, thanks to I-Movix and its SprintCam Live 2 HDTV camera, capable of capturing the action at 8,000 frames per second, and making them immediately ready for instant replay. You've seen their work before in Planet Earth, Future Weapons and PGA Tour coverage on CBS. This promises to be the best Olympics so far in terms of HDTV coverage and its good to know even the replay cameras are up to the task, when we want to see every detail of the first runner to break the tape. Usually photo finishes are determined using high speed cameras with still shots, but we don't know, the Olympic judges may want to join NFL refs with an HD booth all their own.

[Via HDTV Professor]

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 7th 2008 1:09PM]

just to confirm normal movie cameras record at 35 or 38 fps right? so 8000fps would be a MASSIVE difference

[madgamer2000 Posted Jul 7th 2008 3:13PM]

Movie cameras are normally 24 frames per second. Stuff for TV or shot in digital is usually captured at 30 or 60 frames per second... so this is indeed a lot quicker.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 8th 2008 12:07AM]

They want to study all our techniques so they can be the greatest.. bastards.

Cant trust those damm beany eyes