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"World's Fastest Camera" Snaps 6 Million Pictures in a Single Second

Posted April 30, 2009 9:21 AM

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Optics researchers have invented a camera that uses infrared lasers to bounce light off an object, and say the result should leave shutterbugs with a serious case of technology envy. Their device can take 6.1 million pictures in a single second, at a shutter speed of 440 trillionths of a second. Light itself moves just a fraction of a centimeter in that time…. "It's the world's fastest camera" [Wired], says study coauthor Keisuke Goda.

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05/01/2009 9:30 AM

Nowhere near being the worlds fastest, we make the detectors for this camera which runs at up to 100 million fps. We also make a camera ourselves which runs at 500 million fps.

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05/01/2009 9:40 PM

Yeah Nigh, It's amazing that PR pukes will put forth the company line without doing the research. So this "lie is half way around the world" before cooler heads can ameliorate the damage. Tough luck, but ya gotta blow your own horn while you have the chance.

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