I wanted to test the S&Q (Slow and Quick) feature on my Sony FS5. This test will be testing the high frame rate part of this function.
I set up a wine glass full of water and had a garden hose set to slightly drip between 1 to 2 drips per second. I manually set the Gain to 0DB and set my exposure each time using a gray card. The shutter speed obviously changed to accommodate the higher frame rates so I adjusted only the aperture when necessary.
The first view is a look at all 6 frame rates: 24, 60, 120, 240, 480, and 960. I shoot at 24 fps so I skipped the 30fps and went straight to the 60fps. Each frame rate had 5 seconds of real time footage. The bottom 3 frame rates were so slow I didn’t wait till the end of their 5 seconds in real time.
The 24fps footage had a slightly different drip with what seamed to be two drips fairly close together and I have to admit some of the other drip rates were slightly inconsistent, not to take anything away from the mesmerizing beauty of super slow motion.
When filming the 960 fps images, the camera crops the image. I was already zoomed in a bit for all of the other shots so all I did was zoom back out a bit to attempt to get the same size. I failed slightly in than the 960fps shoot has the glass bigger than the others.
The shots were taken with direct backlit sunlight. The focus isn’t as crisp as I would have liked and the 960fps might even be slightly out of focus.