Scientists Build World's Fastest Camera

Found this on Slashdot...
http://hardware.slashd​ot.org …09/04/29/194424​4&from=rss

This is the interesting part:
Researchers have developed a camera that snaps images less than a half a billionth of a second long and can capture over six million images in a second continuously. Dubbed Serial Time-Encoded Amplified imaging, or Steam, the technique depends on carefully manipulating so-called 'supercontinuum' laser pulses.

There must be lots of use for this. It could be used to capture ....

the flapping of a humming bird's wings
does a horse have all 4 feet off the ground when running
a shot of a bullet going through a piece of fruit
the speed at which the word pandemic is used (which is faster than the actual virus spreading)
the time it takes for my wife to spend my salary each month
the time for a football (soccer) team to release a new strip

any other ideas ??

will this be in the 1ds iv?

brit84 wrote in post #7834967
will this be in the 1ds iv?

Nope, it will probably be in a Nikon first. NOW, let the flaming begin.

Blah, who wants to process all those photos in post...

So the Steam camera is better for shooting streakers than the Streak camera? Something's wrong with this picture.

Best commentary yet Nick . And if they're all RAW.......

NickSimcheck wrote in post #7835133
Blah, who wants to process all those photos in post...

6 million photos in one second?

So...? Now we need sandisk to come out with a 1000 terabyte CF card to make this usable in our DSLRs!

Great, so instead of 500 or so crap images I have after a shoot, now I'd have a few bazillion of them. Forget a bigger hard drive, I'd need a bigger recycle bin.

mise well call it a video camera then

And one day you import your images only to find you have specks of sensor dust on every single one of them...and you planned to print them!

Have fun post processing =D

xxloverxx wrote in post #7876133
And one day you import your images only to find you have specks of sensor dust on every single one of them...and you planned to print them!

Have fun post processing =D

Batch Sync "Develop Settings" in LR FTW...!

The sensor's effective pixels count mentioned was only 2500, which is an image 50x50 or so. Not going to be useful for most applications except a rare few.

I imagine that this technology would look something like this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk …d/oxfordshire/8​040687.stm

robtek wrote in post #7887819
The sensor's effective pixels count mentioned was only 2500, which is an image 50x50 or so. Not going to be useful for most applications except a rare few.

So based on moore's law, in about 20 years it will be able to take 6 million one megapixel images in a second.

Big enough to show detail for a wide range of purposes.

And if they figure out how to quadrupel the number of pixels by quartering the number of shots per second, then that would give it a huge range