yxz Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 http://www.wired.com...ng-light-waves/ How fast can your camera shoot photos? 60 frames per second? Pah. 1,000 fps? Puh-lease. What?s that? You have a Phantom camera that?ll shoot one million fps? Whatever. MIT?s new camera will shoot one trillion frames per second.Let?s put that in some perspective. One trillion seconds is over 31,688 years. So if you shot one second of footage on this camera, and played it back at 30fps, it?d still take you over 1,000 years to watch it. That?s one boring-ass home movie. Of course, the ?camera? can?t be taken on vacation, and even if it could, there wouldn?t be enough light on even the sunniest beach to support shooting so fast. What MIT?s device (designed by Professor Ramesh Raskar and team) does is to use ?femtosecond laser illumination, picosecond-accurate detectors and mathematical reconstruction techniques? to illuminate a scene and then capture the pulses of laser light. And like all good magic, the kit also uses mirrors: in this case to move the view of the camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladiatorus Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Wow. Just, wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pajter Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 That's amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qdave Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 This is trully fascinating! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tagerd0g Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 whoa... that's amazing. Now use this camera to catch the neutrinos that are supposedly faster than light! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M_Lyons10 Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Very neat. Not sure about the music though. Apparently in their free time, the research team has a spoon band... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Shucks -- I thought the bottle would disintegrate. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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