High-speed camera

[singlespies]

good idea!

[vitruvian8807]

that is neat, i would have never though of doing it that way.

[MrTurboturbine]

cool i'll go turn my phones camera into a 2,000,000 fps camera now!

[Paxmax]

this made me confused....

[genomicidal]

@Paxmax Regular high-speed cameras need a huge amount of light to get a picture, and the lights get very hot. This trick lets them use less light and still get a high-speed clip by manipulating which pixels are active at what times.

[Paxmax]

Aha, get speed but sacrifice resolution

[Baxxter101]

WHOA! That is amazingly awesome!

[Baxxter101]

Talk about the power of software exploitation of hardware!

[EdouardDubois]

The world is moving TOO fast! How can we keep up?

[Jesusdragon737]

are you serious? That is awesome

[ballyboneman]

Something practical at last :)

[code933k]

@ballyboneman It is in unpractical things where real knowledge lies.

[ballyboneman]

@ code933k. I'm all for knowledge for knowledge's sake, but a little practical application now and again is always welcome :)

[gadget133]

I would have to state that the vast majority of things ever developed have VERY practical applications... Unless they were developed by Demtel or George Foreman... Hmmm... Well, George Foreman did reinvent the grill...

[thepigofhappiness]

@code933k that's why i'm developing a car that can drive across the surface of the sun

[lwanatt]

o i know think of all the UFO based applications!

[gadget133]

@Iwanatt

How is that? So people can tell who manufactured the hubcaps being randomly flung into the air?

[lwanatt]

@gadget133 lol its a better theory than swamp gass

[shadman1911]

this actually simple and cool... making a sort of short movie with the information of one frame just by fotoanalisis... it's kind of a smart .GIF of fotography

[myshoescramp]

cool I hope this'll make regular high speed cameras cheaper.

[cuptow555]

I'm so confused ..........

[Saydang]

Some of the stuff is ridiculous..."This technology could possibly be used by future scientists looking for cheaper and more resourceful ways to identify the moment when rotten bananas become too soft for enjoyable human consumption." ....thanks

[webkilla]

look at it this way. this is essentially taking several light sensitive chips, the gizmos in digital cameras that react to light and send actual image data to a hard drive, and simply blending them together. this way you dont have to take one full image at the time, but can take several at the same time, or at slight delays, making for far more accurate super-slow motion video

[volbla]

Becuase... a rotting banana is a fast cellular process?

[szasz85b]

this is awesome

[Charlymaumushi]

So it's a video camara ! I didn't know we had those. all we had was youtube but now.....

[MasterMuffinMan]

Cool idea, surprised it hadn't been thought of before. I like this guy's narration.

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

does it allow faster frame capture rates?

[darthsmidge]

ah no, normally you'd use all the pixels to get a image/video this one would say, quater the resolution, but get 4x the frame rate.

[TravvyG]

Ummm isn't that how Video Cameras work? All though the extra high resulation from still photos mite come in handy but g must need a power image processor in the camera and a very good lens etc

[Niosus]

No. In a videocam ALL the pixels are lit at the same time. What they do here is divide the pixels into groups. for example 4 groups.The 4 groups are lit individually, but also have a 4th of the resolution. This way they can use (cheap) HD cameras instead of pricey high speed cameras.

You can capture at 1280x720 @ 30fps. OR 640x360 @ 120fps. The handy thing about this is that you don't lose any data. You can recombine the pixels to get the 720p30 video again for more detail (at the cost of fps).

[multidimenzionz]

simpsons did it

[saykarpaudel]

@multidimenzionz

what do you mean ?? what did the simpsons do?

[fallbread]

cool how fast can a camra take a pic and would it be able to change our view of the universe ?

[ItsNesBoy]

Very cool!

[eag001]

booyah