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Again, it's NOT trillion frames per second. Stop spreading this bullshit.

That camera takes extremely short exposures (1 trillionth of a sec), but it cannot take 1 trillion of such exposures in one second. Not even close. Not one billion, not one million (and probably not even one thousand, as there are only a few sensors that can do that).



They capture data at about half a trillion "fps". Then they repeat this over and over and combine the data - as the light from just one exposure is too weak.


This just shows you don't understand how their technology works. They don't capture the data at half a trillion FPS. They take very short exposures and shift the phase very precisely, which creates an illusion of 1 trillion fps.


The resulting video is one trillion frames per second which the title is referring to.

This video shows 10,000 fps video camera which seems to be on a commercially sold camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcQ37OfknJ


> resulting video is one trillion frames per second

No, the resulting video is 30 frames per second.




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