Fairview Knights "C" Baseball: July 16th, 2016 against Monarch

I usually take still images of the boys playing ... but for this game, I decided to have some fun with the 60FPS (frames per second) High-Def video of the Canon 7DM2. With still images, I have the luxury of 20 Megapixels (10X of 1920x1080!) shooting in RAW mode (plus 1/8000s shutter speed versus 1/4000s), so it's easy to crop and process the image to look snazzy. But video is 6 times faster than the 10FPS of still images, which makes a significant difference in capturing the swinging bat as seen below.

Video at 60 frames/per second captures quite a bit of the bat swing as seen here with Luke

Use the controls to play, step, pause, slow-down, and/or speed-up the animation.
Play Step Into (pause at each frame) Pause     Decrease playback speed Increase playback speed     Frame Rate     ... loading images ... Hit "+" four times to see in real-time speed - the bat swings fast!!!
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Shooting stills at 10 FPS would have only captured the first and last image above

Play Step Into (pause at each frame) Pause     Decrease playback speed Increase playback speed     Frame Rate     ... loading images ... Hit "+" four times to see in real-time speed - the bat swings fast!!!
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Video of John, Kyle, Alex, Ian, Griffin, Cole, Kenton, Luke, and Liam smacking the ball

Snippets from above video at 10X Super Slo-Mo!
Since the camera/microphone was about 50 feet from home base, you see the bat hit the ball slightly before you hear it

Closeups of various swings from videos - note shadows as the sun moves higher in the sky

Use the controls to play, step, pause, slow-down, and/or speed-up the animation.
Play Step Into (pause at each frame) Pause     Decrease playback speed Increase playback speed     Frame Rate     ... loading images ...
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More closeup snapshots from the video of Ian, John, & Kyle

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Luke slides in "SAFE" at home - watch all for the 10X Super Slo-Mo replay!


Following images came from stills rather than frames from video

Coach Freddie preps the field and then meets with the Umps

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John & Kyle synchronize their bat swinging! ;-)

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Ditto Alex and Ian

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Liam crushes a high pitch

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Luke hits a sharp liner

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Kenton knocking one into the dirt

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Ian blasts yet another hit

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Zooming in to compare image quality/detail from 20MP still image to 2MP video frame

Use the controls to play, step, pause, slow-down, and/or speed-up the animation.
Play Step Into (pause at each frame) Pause     Decrease playback speed Increase playback speed     Frame Rate     ... loading images ...
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Play Step Into (pause at each frame) Pause     Decrease playback speed Increase playback speed     Frame Rate     ... loading images ...
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Play Step Into (pause at each frame) Pause     Decrease playback speed Increase playback speed     Frame Rate     ... loading images ...
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Photography Notes: Pictures taken with a Canon 7DM2 and 70-200/2.8 lens with remote trigger for still pictures - have to manually engage video. Typically shooting a maximum 1/8000s (video is limited to 1/4000s) shutter speed to freeze the ball. There is some "bending" of the bat/ball which is due to the Rolling Shutter inherent in most cameras. Pictures taken mid-late morning ... too bad not earlier as would be more/lower light on the players coming from 1st base.

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