You’re sitting in your seat, just as calmly as you please when you stop to take some video out the window. And when you look at the footage you rub your eyes trying to make sense of the turbine blades that seem to be melting away from the propeller housing. You wish they would just come back to your cozy little reality.
Confounded, you take the nearest wooden mallet and clock yourself over the head. Whistles, birds, stars and you fall unconscious.
The above footage is a result of the rolling shutter effect. A common but mesmerizing effect that happens when not all parts of the image are recorded at exactly the same time – the sensor of the device picks up only a select part of the movement. The resulting image either skews, wobbles or as above, disappears completely.
Take a look at this crazy example. A helicopter becomes a flying ghost ship. Hey, watch out with that mallet!
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