Slow-motion Dragonflies - Long version

2 years ago

This is a 6+minute video of a series of dragonfly flights in slow motion. The three types are white tail, pond hawk, and blue dasher. I enjoy taking photos of dragonflies and have been amazed with their aerobatics and lightning-fast maneuvering. I just wondered what they would look like in slow motion. This video is my first attempt at slowing down these amazing creatures.

This video is from the Sony FDR AX-700 video camera. This model provides slow motion at 240, 480, and 960 frames per second. Standard and 4K HD video from this camera is very good quality. But, as they explain in the user manual, the quality is noticeably lower when shooting at the higher slow-motion frame rates. You also have to manual focus. This and the other brief, slow-motion dragonfly video are from my first attempt at dragonflies with this camera. I've discovered lighting is also difficult to estimate as these videos appeared much darker during filming.

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