If you have ever studied filmmaking, you'd know movies are basically made up of 24 or 30 still photos for every second of footage.
As the media player/projector plays them back, the ensuing stream of images equals normal movement as seen by the human eye.
The problem is that it is quite difficult to capture so many, high-quality images within such a short time unless you have a very powerful imaging engine. This is what the Casio Exilim EX-FC100 is bringing to the market - in a compact camera size.
With the FC100, you can now take 30 full-resolution photos (6 Mega-pixels) within a second. This way, you are sure to capture the right moment even if the subject is moving.
For movies, the FC100 is even more impressive, offering an astounding shooting rate of 1,000 frames per second - obviously at much lower quality.
But if you play the footage back at the normal movie playback rate of 30 frames, you basically get super slow-motion movies that stretch every second over a span of 33 seconds.