Cheapest Bullet Time with a 9 Dollar Camera

Bullet time photography on a budget with a VHS retro style just makes me smile and I hope you enjoy my journey to make it happen.

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[CSKefka]

"$9.99"
"For only 9 dollars"

They got him

[bumpybumpybumpybumpy]

"and it has several built in games". Here before someone runs doom on it.

[Crashentyre]

It's like watching videos from 2002. This is actually amazing.

Also, calling $9.99 9 dollars is crazy.

[CubedTV]

"Does doing this make me crazy? I don't think so. Me neither." is such a great joke

[mallupayans]

The fact that after the first few minutes, we completely forget that this is an old cam video proves it's all about content, not tech. This is art ❤

[tofuninja]

I like the time stamp feature because it really felt like it was a 90s home video when you were at the market. Without it showing, I would have believed it were from the past

[seaoftranquility]

I worked as a stand-in on the first Matrix and I can confirm that your rig looks remarkably similar. I saw them shoot a couple of bullet time scenes and I had absolutely no frigging idea what they were up to, it made no sense until I saw the movie and then I was completely blown away. They wanted me to work as a stand-in on the next couple of instalments but after reading the scripts I turned them down. That last sentence is untrue and is only included for comedic purposes.

[JuanesChiwirosky]

very cool project, can't belive that you recorded all that 2011/11/11 and I'm watching it just in 2024

[EeveeFromAlmia]

The footage looks absolutely fine; really just shows you just how important good audio is. I feel like I’m watching an old YouTube video from like 2008 that got the audio redubbed

[jimbob]

As someone who's context for consumer technology is still rooted in the late 00s, that looks amazing to me for $10

[HolowatyVlogs]

1:28 sold me. That’s insanely crisp for a toy camera.

[TheSpeakGeek]

Saw this on Hackaday. It has everything you need to love it. Cheap electronics, 3d modeling, 3d printing, behind the scenes footage, The Matrix, and a cat. More please!

[PeterCleff]

At 1:27 there's a shot of your cat that blew me away. It kinda proves that any camera, given the right amount of light and in the right surroundings can look pretty good.

[spdcrzy]

The hardest part of bullet time isn't the camera work, the programming, or even the physical rig itself to set up the right perspective.

It's the fucking lighting.

[PaulCarsonProducer]

this is what being a maker is all about. great job. the fun is in the build. class.

[ProfessorRoguelike]

Dang this actually made me emotional and nostalgic. Reminds me of back when social media was about creating cool stuff not just trolling for attention. Thanks for making this.

[niceatpingpong]

If you frame all your shots in the top 75% of the camera, you could probably crop out the timestamp and be left with a normal-looking 16:9 or 21:9 shot. This way you wouldn't need to actually fix all the timestamps. You lose a bit of the 4:3 nostalgia, but it may be worth it to achieve peak cinematography. I hope you still used that switch you rigged up to sync up the cameras which could make editing a bit easier. I think the next step should be a binocular vision helmet where you mount 2 cameras to a helmet roughly eye-distance apart so the video can be viewed in a VR headset.

[PaulCarsonProducer]

that new microphone before you re soldered it was brilliant

[Jaxrud]

Haha, I never thought bad digital would be nostalgic but here we are

[mbsrosenberg]

This is proof that youtube is about being creative and being interested in what you're doing. This is such a fun video!