BBC shoots underwater in super slo-mo with TyphoonHD4 camera

The BBC has released sample footage of waves and a surfer from South Pacific, an upcoming documentary. The footage is shot in super slow motion (presumably in high-definition) with the new $100,000 TyphoonHD4 camera, which was designed by German high-speed camera expert Rudi Diesel.

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Awesome - thanks for posting that, Eric.

Images are awesome.... Do you know any tech details of the camera Eric?

Jon

Very nice Eric, would not want to loose it in the surf though.

Very nice Eric, would not want to loose it in the surf though.

I wouldn't want to loose it anywhere at 100K.... I wonder how Epic will compare at the end of this year it'll shoot 320fps at 2k if I remember correctly?

Here's Bali's showreel which is more awesome than that clip because he used mere mortal cameras to shoot it:

Btw the Typhoon HD4 is an older camera design. All that stuff was shot at 500fps at 720p. The Typhoon is so small compared to the Photron and Phantom HD(which can do 2k res at 555fps) cameras.

The new HD5 is sexier with bigger memory and lighter housing! Best of all, uses Canon and Nikon lenses as well besides PL mount.

Wonderful.

Inspires me to get back out there and into the water.

The camera's just keep getting better and better...

Btw the series starts May 10 on BBC 2.

Anyone with 100k I can borrow. Payments to be made later...much later.

Steve

Sorry I was a bit slow on this one. Caught it on the TV though and was great. The show had more of course and included "the making of"

For those of you that can use iPlayer you can watch the whole thing is on http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jq11g

I definitely recommend giving it a watch.

Yes I especially liked the Anuta Island segment and how it was juxtaposed against Rapa Nui excess.

Rich Wollocombe's Galapagos sequences were awesome as well but the Stricko's wave shots are legend!

Anyone with 100k I can borrow. Payments to be made later...much later.

Steve

Unreal!!

Thanks for sharing!

Very nice, Lets just add that to WANT LIST along with a couple Reds.