Cameras evolve at a fast pace, both those for phones and standard ones, but when it comes to normal ones, the developments bring a surprisingly good quality for users who take pictures and videos. More precisely, today we are talking about the fastest camera on the planet, which records pictures with 10.000 billion frames per second, and if this figure does not seem big to you, imagine that now the best smartphones do the same thing at 960 frames per second.
The researchers who created this camera claim that it is so fast that it allows them to follow the way light interacts with the material around it, something that was thought impossible a few years ago. The camera uses two image sensors that record images at the same speed, a series of lasers being used to allow the capture of images at such a high speed that everything looks like something taken directly from another parallel reality.
This is the Camera as FAST as the Speed of Light
The camera can record high-resolution images at 10.000 frames per second, and the movies are so slow that researchers will be able to tell us in the future how some elements of the universe that surround us work. At the moment there is no other similar camera on the planet, and the researchers say that this technology can be used in a variety of fields of activity, to simplify and expedite research and development on a global level.
"We have developed single-shot 10-trillion-frame-per-second compressed ultrafast photography (T-CUP), which passively captures dynamic events with 100-fs frame intervals in a single camera exposure. The synergy between compressed sensing and the Radon transformation empowers T-CUP to significantly reduce the number of projections needed for reconstructing a high-quality three-dimensional spatiotemporal datacube."
This camera is extremely fast, but it will most likely be surpassed soon, as researchers are now working on one that records images at 1.000.000 billion frames per second. Of course, technologies of this kind will not reach ordinary people too soon, and it is not known when we will find out how useful they are in reality for research and development, but it is good to know that innovations of this kind exist, and that invest in them.
