Working with Redlake HyCam II 16mm HighSpeed-Camera

The Redlake HyCam II is a 16mm HighSpeed Camera capable of up to 11.000 frames per second !
In this video it runs at 1000fps, filming a glass flask being shattered with an axe.
music: Chasing Sleep - Chill Carrier
instagram: / lufrikas

[@superslowme]

Impressive to see the oldschool Slowmotion techniques :-) Thanks for producing this great video! I am working with the Phantom v641 but I still love the old Film cameras.

[@beamboi2775]

Cool, I hope to get a phantom camera someday, I have a Casio right now:p

[@nickcoleman8495]

Just out of interest this was one of my Hycams. We Had 6 (Hence the label) plus a range of other high speed cameras. We triggered them using custom made 10 channel sequence timers and sequencing flash firing units. Nice to see that at least 1 camera had a second life.

[@toddfinnigan814]

Wow nice job. This gave me flashbacks. I use to run these at up to 11,000 fps a long, long time ago on engineering tests. Sometimes more than one at a time for different angles. Fortunately someone else was paying the film and developing bill. Engineers were using the film to study acceleration and things like that on engineering projects. I think it is almost all done with video nowadays. If I have the calculation right 11,000 fps with a 400 foot roll of film lasts about 1.5 seconds of camera runtime. I remember we always used a countdown. Sometimes took several days to travel and set up lots of cameras, you didn't want to run out of film and miss the event!

[@Echolot789]

thanks ! digitalized it frame by frame with an dslr ;)

[@cbasstn]

Really interesting vid, thanks for the song feature! :)

[@pheminismisshit4571]

very old camera 1960s surprised how u managed to get d film 😁

[@lonedrumer]

You can still get 100ft and 400ft rolls of 16mm film from Kodak. The cameras are getting cheaper now on ebay. The tricky and sometimes expensive bit is lab services and transfer to digital cost. It's all still available these days but getting less popular because of digital cameras.

[@AnalogNoiseSound]

HI! I would like to begin filming. Could you please tell me if it is rare to find the 16 mm for these camera and how much expensive are the films plus the develop ? Thank you very much Zeno

[@leoncinomarco]

Pity that here in Europe one cannot find double perforated film.

[@fbnx4219]

Foma has always been supplying double sided film. And for a quite reasonable price as well.

[@devilduck]

The US Gov is selling off a couple of these as surplus. No bids so far.

[@thelivingmanpart2]

i can see that the power cord connection on your camera is modified. very interesting stuff. do you have anymore info on this?

[@Echolot789]

Yes the camera runs on 110V DC (when I remember correctly) but here in germany we have 230V AC :)

[@thelivingmanpart2]

@@Echolot789 Did you modify it yourself?

[@davidrodgers1952]

Well we filmed a lot more interesting stuff than breaking wine bottles with it Nick :-) Nice to see it still works

[@usedtobeinNASA]

What kind of lens mount does the camera have? C?

[@JeffKomarow]

Great video. What did you use to digitize the footage?

[@antoniocastles7665]

Can you use single perf film on that camera?

[@Echolot789]

No, the camera only takes double perf film.

[@alexeykokh8240]

Very nice demonstration

[@jazzclarinet2006]

Awesome!

[@Sheep26]

wow echt interessant :)

[@dhevoh7488]

Does this camera only film in momchrome?

[@oscarbrown1356]

that depends on the film being used, if you had 16mm colour film you could film in colour

[@nickcoleman8495]

We used colour VNF (video news film). It gave a positive image.

[@fbnx4219]

Lol, what kind of question is that? It is a film camera.

[@Dafid_Malvaro-8_7_09]

​@@fbnx4219😂 i know