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smcclelland
23rd of January 2008 (Wed), 15:03
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/01/prweb643061.htm

After reading the thread about capturing a bullet in flight, I'd say this camera should be able to fill the need ;)
FlyingPhotog
23rd of January 2008 (Wed), 15:15
I had to LOL though when I read that to hit the Million Frames/Sec mark, the frames are 256x8 ...

6600/sec at full res though ain't chopped liver...
smcclelland
23rd of January 2008 (Wed), 15:31
Well if you look at the resolution as well it's a very odd res being 1280x800 as a standard resolution. The 256x8 made me laugh as well, high speed thumbnail gallery.

I'd be curious to see what sort of bottleneck there might be or what compression is used on the files to streamline them fast enough to the internal storage which by the looks of it seems to be a solid state disk.
BillsBayou
23rd of January 2008 (Wed), 16:27
The camera uses F-Mount lenses. :(
Anke
23rd of January 2008 (Wed), 16:34
Anyone told LightRules about this?
FlyingPhotog
23rd of January 2008 (Wed), 16:37
Well if you look at the resolution as well it's a very odd res being 1280x800 as a standard resolution. The 256x8 made me laugh as well, high speed thumbnail gallery.

I'd be curious to see what sort of bottleneck there might be or what compression is used on the files to streamline them fast enough to the internal storage which by the looks of it seems to be a solid state disk.

I would think it would take some sort of a RAID array to be able to assimilate this much information in real time.

I know the disk-based devices we use in Television (that have replaced video tape) work in this manner and are able to digest and spit back out 1080i HD in real time. We also have "Super Slo Mo" units that are running anywhere from 90 fps to over 2000 fps in HD.
DVS_WiNdz
24th of January 2008 (Thu), 03:10
Interesting.. but who would want 1,000,000 pictures per second...
Jim G
24th of January 2008 (Thu), 03:21
Interesting.. but who would want 1,000,000 pictures per second...

I'm sure there's some scientists/engineers out there who've been dying for this development... can't for the life of me think what for but there's doubtlessly someone :p

Mind you, I'm not sure how much data you'll get in images 8 pixels high at that frame rate..
Ronald S. Jr.
24th of January 2008 (Thu), 09:46
I really enjoyed some of the clips in the video at the bottom. Interesting.
20droger
24th of January 2008 (Thu), 13:14
Photos of nuclear reactions?
ben_r_
24th of January 2008 (Thu), 13:32
yea at 8 pixels wide...
20droger
24th of January 2008 (Thu), 13:35
Still good for measuring radiative intensities, and other properties.

Whatever the pixel width, I'm sure there are valid scientific uses. Some researcher out there is drooling as we speak.
BillsBayou
24th of January 2008 (Thu), 13:37
yea at 8 pixels wide...

If you stack the cameras and aim them very carefully, you can use 32 cameras to get a 256 x 256 image. ;)
BigBlueDodge
25th of January 2008 (Fri), 00:50
Can you imagine how long the post processing would take... jeez :)
archosman
25th of January 2008 (Fri), 02:29
Photos of nuclear reactions?


http://simplethinking.com/home/rapatronic_photographs.htm
asysin2leads
25th of January 2008 (Fri), 05:36
Interesting.. but who would want 1,000,000 pictures per second...

Agreed. Anything about 900,000 is just overkill.;)
BillsBayou
25th of January 2008 (Fri), 10:37
Agreed. Anything about 900,000 is just overkill.;)

I can name that tune in 800,000 frames per second. :p