Lund UniversityLovers of slow motion video may have been impressed by the time-bending antics of video producers like The Slow Mo Guys or even tried slow motion recording themselves using a consumer-grade high-speed camera or smartphone. However, no camera on the market comes anywhere close to the latest device built at Lunch University which manages to capture over five trillion (5,000,000,000,000) frames in one second. This isn’t the first technique to achieve speeds in the trillions of fps, or to capture ‘light in flight’. In 2011, researchers at MIT Media Lab demoed a 1 trillion fps camera and later in 2014 a team from the University of Tokyo published a technique for recording at up to 4.4 trillion fps. This level of slow motion allows us to reveal the details in very fast-moving subjects such as bursting water balloons or the beating of an insect’s wings.

Source: Forbes April 30, 2017 19:41 UTC