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."

Comments

only limited usability?

[cyberrobo]

What use is a high-speed camera if it's shutter time is fixed to 1/30s (I guess that's what it is, since those are 30fps cameras, no further information on the homepage).

Yeah, you can get super-smooth animations of "slow" events but there's no way you could capture a bullet penetrating an apple, or any other high-speed events.

Talk about Money shots!

[shotgunefx]

:P