Magical hummingbird slow-motion video shot on a smartphone

[pesco]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/07/25/magical-hummingbird-slow-motio.html

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[Papasan]

Thanks for reminding me to fill the feeder.

[MrShiv]

I love it when they spread out their tail feathers, they look like miniature eagles, thunderbirds, or dinosaurs.

[MadLibrarian]

You know the wings are buzzing like mad, but even with the body swaying to counterbalance, the head always remains perfectly stable…

[Bill_Sudbrink]

And yet, they can’t remember the words…

crickets_chirp

I’ll be here all week folks. Remember to tip your waiters…

[davide405]

Hummingbirds always leave me wondering if the laws of thermodynamics actually apply to them.

[swabbox]

Magical hummingbird slow-motion video shot on a smartphone an iPhone X.

I know house style is to never portray Apple in any way that might approach a positive light, but come on.

[Turnips]

They really are the cutest dinosaurs!

[MaiqTheLiar]

Hummingbirds are bad-ass.

[navarro]

taken with a 2009 model sony cybershot, absolutely my favorite cheap camera i have ever owned. the 2010 “upgrade” made the cybershot awful almost to the point of being useless except as a paperweight.

[MaiqTheLiar]

I’ve tried to shoot hummingbirds with an analog Nikon and they would fly out of the frame on hearing the shutter.

[anon59592690]

It sort of looks like they are suspended from the head, the way they wobble in the air like that. Very, very cool.

[Spizella]

Thanks for making me look this up!

https://nerdist.com/why-do-bird-heads-have-better-stabilizers-than-movie-cameras/

The first rubythroat I saw this year, I went to pull in the feeder to put fresh food in it, and the little beast buzzed me for messing with his food source, lol.

[kddonsf]

so, pics great, but why skip the audio?! and, admitted, my video is sub-standard:

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[sarc]

true why miss the audio

[bryan]

I shoot chickens in slow motion with my iPhone, but for hummingbirds I use an SLR with a big-ass zoom lens. Being able to capture them like this, however…

[orgetorix]

@navarro

2009 model sony cybershot

While it wasn’t cheap by a longshot, my Cybershot F505 from 2000 or so seemed to produce great photos from the camera almost every single time.

[sosumi]

First year feeding, very sparse for the for the first few months but now have dozens of visits a day. Best thing is some of them make a squeaky chirp before feeding so I don’t have to rely on my peripheral vision to alert me. Woo hoo!