Pavel Mamontov, known as Lensevision, marked three distinct symbols onto the blades of an ordinary desk fan and then spent time hunting for the exact rotational speed that would make those blades appear motionless to a video camera recording at 30 frames per second. The end result is a clear depiction of the stroboscopic effect […]
Gavin Free first pointed a high-speed camera at a shutter in 2015, using a Phantom Flex and a cropped square to reach 10,000 frames a second on a Canon EOS 7D. In September 2026 he brought the same battered 7D back, now with a Phantom TMX 7510 that holds full resolution at 80,000 frames a […]
Hubble’s new frame of NGC 4698 arrives from 55 million light years out in Virgo, a spiral tucked into the nearest big cluster of more than a thousand galaxies bound by gravity. Brown dust lanes cut through the outer disk and young blue stars light the same curves, yet those arms refuse to spiral into […]