MIT builds camera that can capture at the speed of light

[Brandon]

A team from the MIT media lab has created a camera with a "shutter speed" of one trillion exposures per second -- enabling it to record light itself traveling from one point to another. Using a heavily modified Streak Tube (which is normally used to intensify photons into electron streams), the team could snap a single image of a laser as it passed through a soda bottle. In order to create the slow-motion film in the video we've got after the break, the team had to replicate the experiment hundreds of times. The stop-motion footage shows how light bounces through the bottle, collecting inside the opaque cap before dispersing. The revolutionary snapper may have a fast shutter but the long time it takes to process the images have earned it the nickname of the "the world's slowest fastest camera."

http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/13/dnp-mit-builds-camera-that-can-capture-at-the-speed-of-light-vi

 

[Monster]

Yeah, but they can only capture one line at a time using that resolution. The process of taking one photo takes one hour. So it's not exactly real-time photography, and the claim of a "trillion frames per second" is a false claim made by journalists not understanding the concept that's behind it. I almost posted the article as well, until I've read how the technology works.