Photography - Slow Motion

Slow motion is a movie-making effect in which the motion appears to have slowed down when played back. Slow motion effects can be achieved when frames are captured at a rate much faster than it they will be played back, so that when replayed at normal speed, time appears to be moving more slowly. Movies taken with cell phone cameras are often played back at 30 fps (frames per second). If, for example, a movie is recorded at 240 fps, it will play back at only 1/8th of the real speed (240 fps/ 30 fps = 1/8). Slow motion photography is excellent for analyzing events that occur too rapidly for the human eye to catch.