Scientists have invented a new trillion-frame-per-second camera!

[Prashant Nani X]

http://www.sciencealert.com/japanese-scientists-have-invented-a-new-trillion-frame-per-second-camera

 

Japanese scientists have invented a new trillion-frame-per-second camera

It can capture events occurring at 45,000 km per SECOND.

 

 

 

[Verne]

But how can it capture so many frames when reality runs at 30 fps?

[Oshino Shinobu]

But how can it capture so many frames when reality runs at 30 fps?

 

 

I wonder what they'll actually use it for. I'd imagine it may actually help with propulsion in some way, being able to better understand how explosions and stuff work. 

[Prashant Nani X]

LoL... they are using rainbow technology to do this...

[ozziestig]

My mind right now!!

 

HOW!!!!!!!!!

Is it fueled by pixie dust and magic.

 

But seriously that is great being able to film at one/sixth the speed of light will help science capture those very fast particles.

[flibberdipper]

Without reading, I can only assume that it's 240p at best.

[christianled59]

I want to see a video of someone turning on a light.

[FloRolf]

But how can it capture so many frames when reality runs at 24 fps?

 

FTFY

[ShadowCaptain]

that is insane

[StareX]

But how can it capture so many frames when reality runs at 30 fps?

LOL

[Albatross]

I wonder what it looks like.

 

But how can it capture so many frames when reality runs at 30 fps?

 

This is pretty funny but these jokes sure do get old...

[Trik'Stari]

Quick! Someone film some porn with it!

 

......longest porn movie ever?

[ozziestig]

Quick! Someone film some porn with it!

 

......longest porn movie ever?

You will be able to see every movement, every thrust in Very Very slow motion.

[SeriousDad69]

Imagine trying to store the footage from that camera. I imagine that thing would fill a 1TB hard drive in less than a minute if the resolution is something respectable like 720p. A traditional hard drive wouldn't even be fast enough to write all that data. Massive SSD Raid 0 anyone?

I'm having a hard time comprehending this.

[MrRavens]

Holy crap, that's a lot of frames. (O_O )

[Dredgy]

Imagine trying to store the footage from that camera. I imagine that thing would fill a 1TB hard drive in less than a minute if the resolution is something respectable like 720p. A traditional hard drive wouldn't even be fast enough to write all that data. Massive SSD Raid 0 anyone?

I'm having a hard time comprehending this.

 

 

It won't be able to shoot for a minute at a time. Like a second at most, though I doubt for even that long since 1 second of footage would take years centuries to play back at 25 frames per second.

 

And I highly doubt it would maintain anywhere near 720p.

 

Assuming each frame was 1KB in size (which would be seriously low resolution), it would fill a 1TB hard drive in 1/1000th of a second, at a data rate of 1PB/s.

[werto165]

I want to see a video of someone turning on a light.

It might be a while, lets say that it play back at 30FPS, 1 *10^12/ 30 = 3.3*10^10 seconds Let's say it takes 300ms(accounting reaction times and the time for the filament to brighten) to turn on that's 1*10^10 seconds that's a cool 317 years.

[FakezZ]

But how can it capture so many frames when reality runs at 30 fps?

How can it capture a trillion fps when i only have two toes?

[ofr057]

guessing there going to use this at CERN?

[Maslofski]

they just needed intel 750 SSDs to come out, now they finished it

[werto165]

guessing there going to use this at CERN?

Probably not:

 

"The team is working to increase how many frames the camera can take in a single shot: last August it was six, and they're now working towards 25. Eventually, they hope to reach 100 frames per shot."

 

Also, the stream of particles that come off when the protons collide probably interfere with the camera. Also light is too large(wavelength) to  view these particles as they're many orders of magnitude smaller.

[MrDynamicMan]

Now we need a monitor that runs that fast.

[Aniallation]

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/11724-read-before-posting-in-this-section/

[Thony]

So many frames.

Now we need it to be at least 1080p

[Bouzoo]

I'm still trying to figure out what "It can capture events occuring at 45,000 km per second" means.