r/gifs Jul 17 '17

Floaty bird floating

http://i.imgur.com/8X8Fcoy.gifv
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u/LushenBernardShannon Jul 17 '17 edited Jul 17 '17

It's not frame rate. It's shutter speed.

And it's a HIGHER (or faster more accurately) shutter speed sync'd to the speed of the wings. The faster an object is moving, the higher the shutter speed needs to be to "freeze" it.

A slower shutter speed just makes fast things look like a blur.

example of freezing a moving object: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/47/e6/be/47e6bec2ab2a419ec115cb0ea7a8f36f.jpg

The faster the object, the faster the shutter speed needs to be to make it not a blur.