1,000,000 Fps

I have a tough time figuring out how it would be useful. Maybe for some scientific applications, but for filmmaking?
 
at 1,000,000 FPS things are dead stopped and motion for almost all things are going to be unviewable. Maybe for time-remapping from realtime to dead stopping. Either way the resolution is probably too small and you will fry your actors eyeballs with the amount of light needed.
 
That is all true, but I don't see what one millionth of a second gets you that one 3000th of a second doesn't.
 
hahah did you see that thing? it is as big as an IMax but it looks like a
1980 video camera! haha

1,000,000 fps might be nice for a dramatic shot of EXTREMELY fast moving objects, yet it would be the kind of dramatic shot you would only be able to use for a short few seconds... like dory said, bullets would be cool, but I really can't think of anything else...
ramping up from 1mill to 24 could be done at whatever fast you wanted to and find a frame for each step... but how big would the plane be at the first frame... would you even see it? Forget about panning to follow it from the side! hehe

I guess it all comes down to resolution anyway... but since it is an 8k camera I guess you just might get something like 480 at that rate?? no idea, but like egproductions said, it would have to be a heap of light so sunlight alone just might not be enough... for SD... ??

Maybe Chemical reactions with microscopes? hehe...
 
I want to see something shot at 1mil! Man, a lot of light for sure, but I really want to see.

I can imagine it's for scientific research more than anything. To study fast reactions or movements. Maybe insects? If they don't burn up from the light? I'd love to see a gunshot as well.
 
I saw the hitachi demo in person. they were shooting 30,000 (according to the rep at least) and i got to pop the balloon personally :)

however it also shoots those framerates at SUB sd res. :(

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most of the uses for frame rates that high are for use in physics. When they want to capture a particle collision, when they have those special tube-like traps deep underground (i think it is photon trap, but it may be some other kind of particle that can travel through everything, and they record the interaction), and other things that only exist for or happen that fast.

Personally, I would like to see it used on a big pane of glass, and have someone hit the glass in the corner to finally find out just how fast it takes a crack to form. To us it's instant.
 
but even at 1 million fps I doubt you get much on chemical reactions... I believe electrons travel close to the speed of light and a million might not be fast enough.. well no idea about that really, but it doesn't sound like it might be enough
 
USLatinContent said:
but even at 1 million fps I doubt you get much on chemical reactions... I believe electrons travel close to the speed of light and a million might not be fast enough.. well no idea about that really, but it doesn't sound like it might be enough
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There are some chemical reactions, and somethings in physics which take place on the order of 100 billionths of a second. Nuclear fission for one. So if they wanted to record something like that on a very small scale, they could.

Or, to record something like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_accelerator

Very useful in Physics.

I STILL want to know the speed at which a crack moves through glass, or moves through some kind of crystaline structure.
 
I've known that camera for a while, I've seem it on the Japanese program a lot. it's really cool.
I found one on youtube too. check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiPVELra4EE

I don't think you would understand a word what they are saying but the images are cool.
by the way, that old man is the person who made that camera!!
 
But what do you think the fastest frame rate humans can see is?

And the ratio between the frame rate, the speed of an object and distance traveled for the successful (discernible) recording of the motion of an object in a given frame ratio. These suckers are traveling incredibly minute fractions of a nanometer... at near the speed of light... like you said... light travels one meter in 3.3 nanoseconds... and electrons are only 0.0000000000002818 milimiters wide... and this thing shoots 345,600 pixels at 30,ooo fps... I just don't see it hapening... I mean... what does this thing shoot at 1,000,000? 90 x 60? maybe less?
 
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