I work in TV and Video media. And record at 25 frames per second. Enough to fool the eye into thinking it is continuous. Even with 11 frames one can create a sense of continuity.
But when we want to observe transient events of smaller time scales, something that happens in much less than 1/25th of a second, my cameras are not much of use.
In early 21st century, a Japanese scientist claimed to reach a speed of 10 million frames per second, with CMOS technology. Not bad.
But now there is a report on recording of a hundred billion frames per second. The new technology will expose physical, chemical and biological phenomena that are not amenable to perception by our neuronal mechanisms. Since fluorescent and luminescent objects are captured by the camera, many researchers will want to use it. Take a look at the description in a recent paper. Nature 516, 74–77 (04 December 2014). Now we can see a video of a laser pulse moving in air and resin at - http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v516/n7529/fig_tab/nature14005_SV4.html
But when we want to observe transient events of smaller time scales, something that happens in much less than 1/25th of a second, my cameras are not much of use.
In early 21st century, a Japanese scientist claimed to reach a speed of 10 million frames per second, with CMOS technology. Not bad.
But now there is a report on recording of a hundred billion frames per second. The new technology will expose physical, chemical and biological phenomena that are not amenable to perception by our neuronal mechanisms. Since fluorescent and luminescent objects are captured by the camera, many researchers will want to use it. Take a look at the description in a recent paper. Nature 516, 74–77 (04 December 2014). Now we can see a video of a laser pulse moving in air and resin at - http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v516/n7529/fig_tab/nature14005_SV4.html
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