Just like the title suggests, this is a “cool things that can be done with a camera” post.

Thanks to a highly skilled team of engineers and modelers, the German visual powerhouse group 

They have dubbed this mechanism the “High Speed Motion Control System” and this robot allows them to track the camera across predetermined movements with amazing precision for videos that border reality and make it almost look like a computer generated image. None of this will really make sense however until you see the teasers that demonstrate just how this can be achieved:

(Via Fstoppers.com)