High-Speed Video Using a Dense Camera Array

karvind writes "Researchers at Stanford have demonstrated multi-thousand frame-per-second (fps) video using a dense array of cheap 30fps CMOS image sensors. A benefit of using a camera array to capture high speed video is that we can scale to higher speeds by simply adding more cameras. Even at extremely high frame rates, our array architecture supports continuous streaming to disk from all of the cameras. Now we know where to use 100TB tape drives and what to expect in the next sci-fi movie."

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I don't think so.
The more I look at this, the more I think they are making life difficult for themselves, and the resultant image quality shows.

Since making my first postings on this discussion, I decided to have a look around at how the professionals handle high speed photography and came up with some nice results.

Theres a company called Photron that have a range of single digital cameras capable of megapixel images at 2000fps.

In their gallery, they even have an example of a water filled baloon popping, and tbh it looks a lot better than this multi camera version.

Agreed, this is a way to do it on the cheap, but because of the spatial issues and timing complexities, it may be more trouble than its worth, and may well be wise to buy a camera from the professionals.