4.4trillion fps Camera

[benj149]

Researchers in Japan have developed a camera capable of capturing video at 4.4 trillion frames per second at a resolution of 450x450.

 

 

http://hexus.net/ce/news/cameras/73125-researchers-develop-44-trillion-frames-per-second-camera/

 

Remember, FPS, is just a number.

[dragoon20005]

450x450

 

what is this resolution???

 

i can only think for research use only

[Excon]

How do you even....... Also im sick of this "fps is just a number shit"

[Wyre]

high speed cameras often have very low resolutions. Part of getting the speed out of the camera is running smaller resolution and HUGE amounts of light.

[ShadowCaptain]

HOLY BALLS

 

1 second of footage must be MASSIVE

 

 

How do you even....... Also im sick of this "fps is just a number shit"

 

 

Why, some people still do not get it

[Solkia]

I don't really understand how cameras work, so pardon my ignorance, but is that many fps even necessary?

[Jobbe03]

I don't really understand how cameras work, so pardon my ignorance, but is that many fps even necessary?

For research purposes yes.

[Rheinwasser]

I don't really understand how cameras work, so pardon my ignorance, but is that many fps even necessary?

if you want to do extreme slowmo, then yes.

[Karumu]

450x450

 

what is this resolution???

 

i can only think for research use only

 

 

High speed cameras are used in science and industry to visualise and analyse events that can't otherwise be observed. The scientists believe the STAMP camera will be of great utility in the fields of photochemistry, spintronics, phononics, fluidics, and plasma physics. For instance, the researchers successfully photographed the conduction of heat which is transmitted at a speed of one sixth of the speed of light, says the WSJ. More practical uses outside science research labs include the possible application in semiconductor and car manufacturing and in the field of medicine.

did you even read the article?

[ShadowCaptain]

I don't really understand how cameras work, so pardon my ignorance, but is that many fps even necessary?

 

For science, yes.

 

You can slow things down and see how light waves interact, or how bullets transfer kinetic energy, how molecules interact

 

Things that happen to fast for us to monitor

[Karumu]

HOLY BALLS

 

1 second of footage must be MASSIVE

 

 

 

 

Why, some people still do not get it

well yeah if it is RAW footage then it will be terabytes of footage in one go

[Solkia]

I actually forgot about slowmo.

 

This is pretty cool then.

[Marvzl1357]

cool, now is there an example of the footage? maybe of a laser beam passing through some smoke? that would be cool

[ShadowCaptain]

well yeah if it is RAW footage then it will be terabytes of footage in one go

 

Surely you need like 10 SSDS in raid 0 just to record 

[ItsComrade]

4 trillion FPS porn incoming.

[Linus_torvalds]

4.4 trilion is 4 400 000 000 right?

light speed is 300 000 km/s

 

300 000 / 4 400 000 000 = 0,000068182 km

0,000068182 * 1000 = 0.068182 m ~ 6.8 cm

 

so what does it mean? it can take picture of light when light travels every 7 cm? WOW

[dragoon20005]

1 trillion is 1 & 12 zeroes = 1,000,000,000,000

[ivhyn]

4 trillion FPS porn incoming.

You want to see a dick being put into someone in super-super-super-super-super-ultra slow motion?

[akaslan]

To help people who doesn't see the actual use of it, this may help you. 

 

[mr moose]

4.4 trilion is 4 400 000 000 right?

light speed is 300 000 km/s

 

300 000 / 4 400 000 000 = 0,000068182 km

0,000068182 * 1000 = 0.068182 m ~ 6.8 sm

 

so what does it mean? it can take picture of light when light travels every 7 sm? WOW

yes, with this camera you can watch the entire spectrum of light waves propagate across an object.  the above video will help.  But this new camera is 4.4x faster than the femto from MIT.

[HexaGuy]

I don't really understand how cameras work, so pardon my ignorance, but is that many fps even necessary?

 

Only for research purposes. This is especially beneficial for ceramic plate armour testing, as before, even with a high speed camera, it would be intact one second and broken in another. With this, you could actually see the armour plating actually breaking. There are heaps of other applications too.

[brownninja97]

because why fucking not.

[Kamina]

Now we just need to capture the fastest moving object, for science!

[aom]

Now we just need to capture the fastest moving object, for science!

Well technically not an object, the fastest known "thing" would be light.

[aEi1aesainee2]

I was very confused because in the ("normal") long system a "trillion" is 10¹⁸.... Which is... like a lot more than your short system 10¹²....

 

We really should only speak in order of magnitude sometime... It's just confusing to use your billions and millions (and it's etymologically stupid but meh. it your language. do what you want with it)

 

EDIT: I think there was a numberphile video about this... Some years ago