If you think your high-end DSLR is awesome for capturing photos at up to 1/8,000 of a second, then consider this new camera unveiled by two universities in Japan. Designed to capture chemical reactions, it captures images consecutively in less than 1/1,000,000,000,000 of a second. Yes, that’s less than one-trillionth of a second.
It uses technology called STAMP, which is an acronym for Sequentially Timed All-optical Mapping Photography. The optical shutter allows the camera to capture images at such a high frame rate. Whereas mechanical and electronic shutters max out around one-billionth of a second frame rates.
As the creators explain:
The principle of this method—’motion picture femtophotography’—is all-optical mapping of the target’s time-varying spatial profile onto a burst stream of sequentially timed photographs with spatial and temporal dispersion.
The cost, of course, is in the resolution. Each frame is only 450 x 450 pixels – or 0.2MP.
[via Gizmodo & Wall Street Journal]
What kind if ISO or aperture would you need for a shutter speed of 1/1,000,000,000,000 of a second?!!
I don’t think the writer knows the difference between ‘your’ and ‘you’re’.
Thanks for letting me know about the typo… and for the snark.
In this system you wouldn’t need neither iso nor shutterspeed.