MIT builds camera which could capture on the speed of sunshine (video)

A team from the MIT media lab has created a camera with a “shutter speed” of 1 trillion exposures per second — enabling it to record light itself traveling from one point to a different. Using a heavily modified Streak Tube (that is normally used to heighten photons into electron streams), the team could snap a single image of a laser because it gone through a soda bottle. A good way to create the slow-motion film inside the video we’ve after the break, the team needed to replicate the experiment hundreds of times. The stop-motion footage shows how light bounces during the bottle, collecting contained in the opaque cap before dispersing. The revolutionary snapper could have a quick shutter however the long term it takes to process the photographs have earned it the nickname of the “the world’s slowest fastest camera.”

[Image courtesy of MIT / M. Scott Brauer]