Trillion frames per second camera

[Brogan]

This is amazing.

This "camera" records so many "frames" a second, it can show a light pulse entering a bottle.

One showed a pulse of light, less than a millimetre long, travelling through a soft drink bottle at a rate of half a millimetre per frame.

Another showed different wavelengths of light rippling over the surface of a tomato and the table it was sitting on.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16163931

 

[FB]

Hasn't this been done before? I seem to recall years ago there were open shutter cameras which used strobe lights to to get more FPS than was possible using a mecahincal shutter system.

None the less, very clever.

 

[Speshal]

Very clever

 

[Josephiah]

Hasn't this been done before? I seem to recall years ago there were open shutter cameras which used strobe lights to to get more FPS than was possible using a mecahincal shutter system.

Would that mean you could only film in a darkened room?

 

[FB]

Would that mean you could only film in a darkened room?

s'pose it would. Found some links although these are about still photography with strobes.

http://www.woodselec.com/strobe.htm

http://www.penguinslab.com/Penphotos/strobe.htm

 

[gethinceri]

Most of those shown on the Penguin's Lab link must've been taken on a dark night.

Take as much time as you like.........