Life in slow motion

I told you I'm doing my baseline fitness and cognitive tests tomorrow. Well, one of the requirements is a smart phone -preferably with slow motion video option.

I am lying in bed trying to get to grips with this concept. 'How can it film me in slow motion if I am doing it in ordinary motion? It would take longer to film me than I would be doing it.'

Husband says, 'It depends on the thingy per minute.' (He didn't say thingy but I can't remember what he did say.) Frames? I think that's it. 'Film is normally shot at x frames per minute because at that speed the human eye doesn't see the flicker. So for slow motion it blah blah blah.'

'Oh. Can my phone do it?'

'I don't know.'

Much later, while he's gone for his covid vaccination, I investigate my phone camera settings for frames per minute information. Sheesh, I mutter to myself. Nothing there looks like it would refer to fpm. So I google it - once I've worked out what my phone is - make, model, etc.

There I find a very helpful video. 'Switch on phone. Click on camera. Click on video settings,' she says. 'Then press the Slow Motion button.'

Ah, yes, that would do it.