Testing Ember - The Super Slow Motion Camera from Freefly

Thank you so much to ‪@freeflysystems‬ for trusting us to test out, fly, and shoot with a loaner of their "Ember", their brand new super slow motion camera. We are so excited to be able to play around with it and test it out, and I wish that I had one in my arsenal!
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00:00 Introduction
00:30 Shot on Ember
01:25 Resolutions & Frame Rates
02:17 Weight
02:30 Voltage
02:55 Shutter
03:05 Memory
03:46 Wave vs. Ember
03:55 Form Factor
04:35 Battery
05:08 HDMI Output
05:35 Power Switch
05:53 Color Depth & Dynamic Range
06:54 Variable ISO
07:13 Using It on Drones
07:34 Testing at the Mint400
08:53 Testing at Payne’s Valley
10:30 Thoughts on Footage
10:51 Hardest Lesson Learned
11:58 Conclusion

[@armandrone9016]

Dude, you are an example to be followed. Your constant and tireless evolution has always been very inspiring to me.

[@dfgaJK]

Holy f***, game changer. These SlowMo dynamic moving shots look unreal!

[@dfgaJK]

Gravity defying moves. Like pointg straight down, dives and inverted/rolls would look so cool in super slow motion.

[@TheDIYWorkshop111]

Fantastic!

[@Joeyzoom]

Looking great Nurk! Keep up the great content 👍

[@cineflight1171]

great and fun work as always, thank you nurk!

[@NURKFPV]

Glad you enjoyed it! It was a bast!

[@doccock100]

good to see you're looking after yourself better Nurk.

[@zaleteam_fpv]

Amazing! I enjoyed this video

[@TrainLovers-TL69]

Drift look awesome!

[@PIDtoolbox]

absolutely love the cam!

[@NURKFPV]

It's so cool

[@JedDobre]

I need to see this flown through a fire work display!!

[@loganlambert]

Definitely best shots were on the FPV. Thats awesome

[@PitsFlyingEye]

Oh wow this review came at a perfect time because i already think about wich one will be my way to go for, thx for this great review

[@NURKFPV]

Glad the timing worked!

[@RossHasAdrone]

HUGE improvement over the wave! The biggest challenge I've encountered I just how good it is at seeing the imperfections of the drone it's mounted to! any kind of oscillations you might have (damaged prop, funky tune, wind) shows up clear as a bell! (I'm talking 400+hz oscillations) I saw little glimpses of that in some of the clips you shared here like the subtle vibrations at the slow shot at 01:07 , was that a pretty constant struggle? or more intermittent? 🙏🏻

[@PeterLindgren1]

Thanks you... Now i need one lol. Great content man!

[@studio218mn]

Epic 🤘🏻

[@B_Ripping]

Another awesome video/lesson Nurk. Maybe you should revisit the dude with the spinning fire balls. That was one to remember for sure. Thanks again keep them coming I'm watching.

[@SkyGizmmo]

Paul Because you push what shots are even possible your camera skills and knowledge should not be slighted. I have a perfect application for ssm.... I actually think of you as my go to when the project (confidential for now) is ready and can bring you on. Thanx also for the great Ember review. Nurk there is no substitute!

[@mattcarlson12]

Awesome video! I had a question about the Ember... can you use regular Sony lenses like the 100-400mm in manual focus mode? Or do they have to be cine lenses? Thanks!

[@Latchfpv]

Beautiful quality out of that camera, wow.

[@NURKFPV]

it's insane!

[@FTFO_Media]

I enjoyed the video with the Freefly Wave you’ll did and bet it is even better with the Ember

[@NURKFPV]

This camera is a huge step up -- hopefully the video lives up to the hype :P

[@jamescody7440]

Glad I watched til the end. Worth it haha

[@BenGampel]

Insane

[@RandomMiscShit]

“Where does he get such wonderful toys?!”

[@Antsmith21]

Another awesome video as always. I would love to see fireworks

[@robertfontaine3650]

Best vlogging camera ever. ;)

[@flying0graysons]

Dude, you're looking so much fitter. Congrats. The video is cool too.👍

[@Smagsfpv]

Amazing footage

[@NURKFPV]

I'm stoked with how it turned out!

[@Smagsfpv]

@@NURKFPV can't wait to see more. 🔥

[@fookingsog]

Awesome to see it has "Global Shutter"!🤗

[@NURKFPV]

Same here!

[@rip_fpv]

Nice man! I’ll be ripping one this weekend on a 6” vulture. I’ll be moving slow but should be pretty sick either way. I’m powering it using a 12v polulu and bringing a bunch of little 4s HV packs as a back up to power directly. How’d you power it on your build?

[@NURKFPV]

I powered it using a built in d tap connector on the CMW Thrustmaster

[@JordanKyle]

Broooo please post a link to your lut packs. This looks AMAZING

[@yankey4]

Dude so sick!! Chase a RC jet with that setup. Thanks for sharing. God bless

[@NURKFPV]

I think that's one of those things that would just look slow.. maybe with some flares or smoke or something

[@fookingsog]

​@@NURKFPV Are there any scale RC Stunt Bi-Planes that could do the smoke & tricks???🤔...add a scale size wing walker onto the top wing for "detail interest"!!!

[@MantraAerials]

Nurk, how did you mount the dji transmitter to the top of fx6?

[@pslaathaug]

I've been playing with shooting slowmo with Trap shooting... I think that would be an awesome thing for you to try out.

[@313Films]

I own the Red Komodo... but when i do Handheld it is not very stable. How stable is this camera when filming handheld? Would you say it is shaky? I just hate using a steadicam because set up is a pain. Would love to know if you have any handheld footage in 24fps. Thank you sir

[@intrepidscotland8091]

I wonder what composite shots would look like. The truck going through the puddle at normal, or near normal speed and the waterfall in super slowmo. Normal speed golf buggy over the bridge + slowmo waterfalls. Mix n match composite shots with different relative slowmo speeds.

[@erikflies]

🔥🔥

[@NURKFPV]

all the spice

[@tymfor]

awesome flying but - did you redo the outro in super slo mo for future use?

[@NURKFPV]

That's a great idea that I didn't think of while I had the camera.

[@calvinschellbach8168]

See if you can chase a stunt airplane with it! That would be some epic footage!

[@tbonebugam1]

Cool

[@NURKFPV]

yeah buddy!

[@StillGrayProductions]

Drift cars would look awesome on that camera

[@Tarfyen2]

Try to take this thing - on a shooting range filming bullets coming out of the barrell. - On a stunt cheerleader performance with dancers getting thrown into the air - On an airbase with Jet engines firing - On a polo match with all the dirt flying around and riders making quick turns.

[@menthous305]

What about paralaxing (is that how u use it?) a exploding firework/fireworks, at maybe late dusk, so u can kind see the trajectory of the rocket?

[@NURKFPV]

SpaceX can I come film a launch?

[@awesomefeldmanfamily]

@@NURKFPV yeaaaaaaa

[@awesomefeldmanfamily]

Btw you should actually reach out to them , they have an FPV guy for Tesla and they film their launches with drones sometimes

[@CalvinFalk]

It seems for a faster production workflow you would need 2 bodies for one kit, so that you can have the A body offloading its mag while you can continue to shoot on the B body. Form factor is amazing vs the Phantom Flex 4k. But the non removable mag seems to be an almost killer for selling it to film producers.

[@60park]

external media pack on the way I gather ...

[@tomaszboril]

Crashing thru the glass or windows in superslowmo would be nuts.

[@checkeredflagfilms]

were these shots stabilized in post?

[@NURKFPV]

There was zero post stabilizaton on any wave footage

[@WestFPV]

Bring it to IO and get some action shots at the SL race lol

[@misterboyle]

A Destruction Derby would look epic with slow mo on a drone. One question if shooting 1000fps 4k how much recording time did you have on the camera

[@NURKFPV]

I didn't actually check but it would have been around 45 minutes I think

[@misterboyle]

@@NURKFPV cheers for the reply

[@its_Savian]

we need more dept gyroflow tutorial for Cine camera 😭😭 please 🙏

[@NURKFPV]

What do you need to know? It's pretty plug and play now

[@ApolloMedia]

Paintball tournaments would be sick to see at 1000fps, but I don't have $18k for this camera :(

[@billmcdonald4335]

A juggler, with 5 flaming chainsaws. That'd be a fun shoot, dontcha think? Put her on a unicycle. . .

[@NURKFPV]

Sold

[@JumpeFurby]

Cf express has like a max speed of 4000MB/s. The is no good reason to integrate the storage. There is also no reason to design it in a way that u can't just pop in and out the ssd. They could learn something from the icydock thougharmor lineup! Anyway great video loved it!

[@NURKFPV]

I think the model that the inspire 3 uses could work really well as well. It's a full SSD that just pops in and out and has a USBC port on it

[@Tarfyen2]

When you have the same taste in stock music xD

[@fluoxethine]

Please put a lightweight carbon cage with shock absorbers around that camera and lens to protect it from crashes. Thank you

[@NURKFPV]

There aint nothing that's gonna protect that bad boy

[@zuzmw]

Just fyi, some USB-C cables transfer faster, it might help with the transferring of files, unless of course it is bottlenecked by either the cam, or the device you are downloading to. Some usb-c cables transfer at some crazy high speeds. Hope this helped!

[@NURKFPV]

I tried a couple different ones -- I've had the experience that you're describing with different cables. The fastest that I was getting out of the camera was only about 250-300 mbps, which was dissappointing. The fastest that I've gotten across my USBC bus on my computer is closer to 520 or so..

[@zuzmw]

@@NURKFPV yea, that is def disappointing, hopefully when you get your on personal edition, they can fix(or upgrade if it’s not a “problem” in their eyes” if you want to do a lot of work, for slightly better speeds, you could change the port on the cam, and that might help, but it might just be a low-ish quality nvme on the cam.

[@zuzmw]

@@NURKFPV love the content btw, look up some to you skills and knowledge, thanks for the awesome content

[@Joseph-yy8pw]

Has anyone used this camera while shooting against a green screen? If yes, how was the edge quality for keying?

[@NURKFPV]

I have to imagine it's good because you're at such a high shutter speed.

[@fulybuilt]

Was all about this until I saw the price! guess I've been living under some rocks for a while. 17k sheesh

[@Rocketryman]

Great work, great video. One thing. You are not filming, you need film for that. You produce digital videos. You are very talented. But, filming and digital video require different skill sets. Say shoot or produce or leave the identifier out. Keep up the good work.

[@dfgaJK]

It is a shame they didn't put 40Gbps usb c on it. (5GBps)

[@robertdouble559]

I'll bet it's just a Crucial/Micron 4tb M.2, as they're great value for money. Why they couldn't make it removable is beyond me. Dumb choice. Other than that, very cool camera.

[@ZachWhitehead]

Cant wait to see how we can use this to get some more amazing @throwflame flamethrower shots

[@NURKFPV]

We tried to set it up!

[@awesomefeldmanfamily]

Film things falling and crashing!!!!

[@NURKFPV]

I'll find as many as I can!

[@Snipfpv]

18000 balls diaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam