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New High-Speed Camera Captures Photos at 1-Trillionth of a Second

August 11, 2014 By Eric Reagan

STAMP Camera

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]

Filed Under: Gear Tagged With: chemical reaction, High Speed, science

 

Comments

  1. Oberoth says

    August 12, 2014 at 3:08 pm

    What kind if ISO or aperture would you need for a shutter speed of 1/1,000,000,000,000 of a second?!!

  2. Hank says

    August 15, 2014 at 7:16 am

    I don’t think the writer knows the difference between ‘your’ and ‘you’re’.

    • Eric Reagan says

      August 16, 2014 at 11:10 pm

      Thanks for letting me know about the typo… and for the snark.

  3. saleh says

    August 15, 2014 at 8:24 am

    In this system you wouldn’t need neither iso nor shutterspeed.

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