Mount Nemo - Chronos 1.4 with reflex sight

The image artifacts and noise are a result of low light and not doing a black calibration before shooting. I expect to be getting some better footage as the weather improves!

[@MrLucidity]

I really like the high speed stuff you post. Not only are the creatures beautiful, but we get to see the mechanics of them - the eagle turning w/flight feathers etc, that dragonfly landing a few vids ago et al. Look forward to more!

[@johnpossum556]

Beautiful footage! I didn't know the birds wings came so far down to basically touch each other on each downstroke. Surprising flexibility.

[@yarharyar]

I subbed 5 videos ago, love your channel - Cheers dude!

[@NickMoore]

Thanks!

[@FredMiller]

Great stuff Nick. Loved the turkey vulture footage... Music rocked as well...

[@NickMoore]

Thanks, they are one of my favorite seasonal birds and they aren't bothered much by people being nearby.

[@rezganger]

Very cool! But what r all those tiny black dots?Something on the lense,or..?

[@NickMoore]

I was in a hurry when I set up shooting that day and didn't do the "black calibration." The calibration takes care of fixed pattern noise that is present in all image sensors.

[@captapraelium1591]

Awesome. I'd love to see what could be done with a computer tracking the motion. There are 'sentry gun' applications out there already which could be easily adapted. 0:55 tho, wow.

[@NickMoore]

Ishikawa Senoo Laboratory demo'd a system a long time ago that used 2 mirrors on galvos to direct the filed of view of a high speed camera. They were able to track the motion of a ping pong ball during the game and of a yoyo with extremely high precision. I would love to try a system like that but it's way above my level.

[@captapraelium1591]

Well, you seem to be doing pretty darned good the way it is anyway :)

[@Nimbos0]

Just wondering, what were those dark blue dots that were on the video?

[@NickMoore]

The dots are noise because I neglected to do a black frame calibration before shooting.

[@LeDabe]

Would it not be better with some color tweaks?

[@NickMoore]

These shots came out of the camera encoded with h.264 so I can only push the exposure and colour so much. The camera has the ability to save raw video but it takes up to 20 min to save a clip and I didn't have enough remaining battery charge to do so. I will be building a portable power pack for the camera very soon so I will be able to save raw video and get much higher quality video.

[@2harriskeenan]

You see the size of the nuts on the wolf??

[@amosaiccosmos6302]

Yikes...that's a macabre looking thing.

[@NickMoore]

The turkey vultures aren't too pretty but the way they fly is interesting. They almost never flap once they are up.