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Here is a video of a GoPro falling from a plane: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrxPuk0JefA

Any idea what is happening when the image "stabilizes" around 0:35? I think it is because the camera's tangential velocity approaches the speed of the GoPro's rolling shutter.

Follow-up question:

  • Why is the image skewed with the left side skewed "up" and the right side skewed "down?"

A challenge:

  • Find the axis of rotation (with supporting diagram and explanation of how it was computed).
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It looks like something that the older analog TVs had called a vertical hold.

My answer is that the frames per minute taken by the camera is equalizing the rotation/spinning of the camera. It was chance that they got the ground in the frame. You can kind of get the same effect when filming a helicopter's rotor and it looks stationary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxddi8m_mzk

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