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I wanted to shoot out the window on a recent flight and all I had available was my iPhone 3GS. The scanning order of the sensor combined with the refraction from the window caused this pretty cool phenomenon. I then discovered that rotating the camera would warp the blades in different directions.

The footage was brought into After Effects and rotated to match the physical rotation of the iPhone.

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  • Dacosta! 2 years ago
    Nice!
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  • Grim Santo 2 years ago
    That is a cool effect.
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  • Dan DeGloria plus 2 years ago
    Whoa, very cool!!
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  • thepete 2 years ago
    trip-e!
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  • Andy Moorer 2 years ago
    neat!
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  • Eric Deren 2 years ago
    rolling shutter. no refraction, just a sensor that records different parts of the frame at different times. You have exploited a limitation and made probably the coolest example of rolling shutter artifacts ever, Steve.
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  • Steve Talkowski 2 years ago
    Yeah, I figured rolling shutter had something to do with it too. When I tilted up and down, it looked like refraction might have also contributed. Would be interesting to repeat this as a controlled experiment, and even exploit it for some funky VFX sequence. Hey, If I see this in a commercial I better get the appropriate credit! ;)
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  • Japhy Riddle 2 years ago
    The one downside (upside in this case) to CMOS sensors.
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  • Anders Hattne 2 years ago
    that's pretty sweet!!
    Am I wrong in comparing this to a slit-scan ?
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  • Mark Bellncula plus 2 years ago
    We'll probably see it in a music vid first. I had trouble explaining the rolling shutter artifact to my class last year. I'll use this as an extreme example. Thanks Steve!
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  • james featherstone 2 years ago
    !
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  • ZHIC 2 years ago
    my head hurts.
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  • Calvin Cardioid plus 2 years ago
    get off that plane!
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  • Richard Hale 1 year ago
    what Calvin said!

    very cool phenomenon
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  • KD 1 year ago
    hahaha swwweeeeeet!
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  • *safe solvent™ plus 1 year ago
    so very very awesome.
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  • Rob Mullender 1 year ago
    this has completely made my day. thank you.
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  • Iain Ashford 1 year ago
    fantastic!
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  • Tim Cooper plus 1 year ago
    Hey Steve! Great Video. I am doing a presentation on Dslr video and would love to show the class your video. Would you allow this?
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  • klokan 7 months ago
    great example
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