thomas_lozinski Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 <p>http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/trillion-fps-camera-1213.html<br> The video is mind blowing, you can actually see the beam of light (laser) travel across a scene.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Laur Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 <p>That <em>is</em> cool. But to be fair, it's not a trillion frames of the same event. The laser continues to pulse, and the camera continues to take a progressive series of images that portray the path those pulses are taking. But it's not a recording of one pulse of laser light making that trip. <br /><br />It does, though, nicely illustrate the notion that it's this crazy packet of particles/waves that's traveling across a distance. It makes the fact that we're using larger instruments to look at photons that left somwhere else over 10 billions years ago that much more amazing.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LenMarriott Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 <p>Thomas, truly amazing. At Photokina, in 1962, I saw a state of the art movie camera which could take 2 photos in the time it took light to travel to the wall (about 10 ft. away) and back. This makes that camera look like wet plate camera. Best, LM.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 <p>It is interesting and cool, although I got to say that the video is really deliberate.</p> <p>'Slowly he turned, step by step.." </p> <p>Though now that I think on it, things were kinda like that at the other end of Massachusetts Avenue.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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