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4.4 Trillion Frames A Second: The World's Fastest Camera

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
August 16, 2014
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Submitted by Hank on Sat, 08/16/2014 - 06:00
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The University of Tokyo and Keio University have unveiled the world’s fastest camera - its Sequentially Timed All-optical Mapping Photography makes it 1,000 times faster than other cameras. So fast it can catch catch the conduction of heat as it happens.

That's a speed equivalent to one-sixth the velocity of light.

World’s Fastest Camera Captures Chemical Reactions in Single Shot By Megumi Fujikawa, Wall Street Journal

Image: Developed by the University of Tokyo and Keio University, the world’s fastest camera uses new technology that it enables it to capture images that are basically impossible to visualize in a single shot. Source: The University of Tokyo

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