If you’ve ever watched an episode of Time Warp then you know what a high speed video camera is used for. High speed cameras are often used in television broadcasts of major sporting events to show slow motion replays. They can also be used in science to study events that happen too fast for traditional film speeds, such as frogs jumping and the strikes of the mantis shrimp.
High speed digital video cameras can be used by engineers and researchers as a diagnostic tool to analyze high-speed processes. The camera records a series of images at very high frame rates and plays it back in slow-motion. Thus, the viewer can analyze events that happened too fast to see with the unaided eye.