A trillion frames per second, anyone?

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Yes, that's 1,000,000,000,000 frames per second. At that kind of speed you can capture (and the researchers have captured) a movie of a pulse of light washing over a target. Utterly amazing.

BBC News report here: [click], which links to the researchers' article and videos here: [click].
 
The new Nikon D4 will leave that standing :)
 
artyman said:
I blinked and missed it :D
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About 100 Billion times (assuming a blink lasts 1/10 sec and my maths is ok).

Or, like Trigger you could wonder why the stars are going out then coming on again! :lol::lol::lol:
 
StewartR said:
Yes, that's 1,000,000,000,000 frames per second. At that kind of speed you can capture (and the researchers have captured) a movie of a pulse of light washing over a target. Utterly amazing.

BBC News report here: [click], which links to the researchers' article and videos here: [click].
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It is amazing but it's not capturing a pulse of light washing over a target in a single movie, it's capturing a strobe effect captured in many movies which are then very cleverly broken apart and put back together to create a single movie.

Still very impressive though.
 
I should imagine you'd need very good lighting, or a very very wide aperture to get the correct exposure. :D
 
They don't know what the pictures are like yet, it will be another 6 months until the camera finishes writing to the card :D
 
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