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“Creative lab” Party has released a music video for the band androp that required the use of 250 Canon 60Ds wired together. The effect is a wild and creative strobe show.
I wish they had clicked my “buy a 60D here” link.


Inspired by the song’s lyrics, “not to make it a memory,” Party created the video using 250 Canon still cameras; their flashes were controlled via a potent DIY cocktail of arduino, openFrameworks, and Flash. The effect is a “light animation” produced with no CGI at all.
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Source: Fastcompany
Thanks Raed
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douflag:
Wow, those are 580EX II's also!

terwilliger:
If you look at the video, it seems clear to me that they're using several different kinds of cameras, and several different types of flashes (the silhouettes are not the same).

I guess it's sort of neat, it seems like a really painful & expensive (foolish) way to get this effect.  Couldn't you get the same effect for a lot less money by:

1) Not having a camera at all, and just triggering the flashes with a PC cable?  (HiViz sells kits that can trigger a flash for ~$20).

2) Not using a flash at all, and just triggering some kind of bulb directly?

If they did this with only 60D + 580EXII, then that's ~$425,000 worth of kit.

terwilliger:
...er not PC cable; I guess I meant by shorting the pins on the hot shoe.

Mt Spokane Photography:
Getting the timing correct is not easy for that type of photography.  Breeze has done custom software to control dozens of cameras at a time.

I use it to capture studio images.

Note the image on their home page with 120 Canon 30D's all linked together and controlled by 5 laptops.  I think they were fired sequentially to give a moving image effect.  There were no large format low cost video cameras back then.

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