World’s fastest film camera captures five trillion frames per second

Researchers at Sweden have developed what may be the fastest film camera up till now.

The camera developed at the Sweden’s Lund University is supposed to be faster than any other photography equipment.

By capturing astounding five trillion frames per second or events as short as 0.2 trillionths of one second, researchers aim to capture speedy processes in various disciplines like chemistry, biology and physics.

However, Mashable informs, when compared to the conventional cameras, they can film at approximately 100,000 frames per second.

The co-inventor of the fastest camera, Elias Kristensson mentioned, “Explosions, plasma flashes, turbulent combustion, brain activity in animals, and chemical reactions — we are now able to film such extremely short processes.”

The camera which is dubbed as FRAME, Frequency Recognition Algorithm for Multiple Exposures, is supposed to be used in order to film combustion as it happens at the molecular level, told Kristensson along with his partner Andreas Ehn.

The researchers however, aim to help make the fuel-burning machines more energy-efficient through observing the combustion process at every brief and minute level.

Kristensson believed, “In the long term, the technology can also be used by industry and others.”

Publishing about the camera in Light: Science & Applications, the new super-fast film camera makes use of computer algorithms which is able to capture many coded images in one picture which are later organized into a video sequence.

Along with maintaining new records, FRAME contains the ability to capture chemical changes in real time. The researchers mentioned that without this technique, past researchers could only visualize such events by photographing still images of the procedure.

“You then have to attempt to repeat identical experiments to provide several still images, which can later be edited into a movie. The problem with this approach is that it is highly unlikely that a process will be identical if you repeat the experiment,” concluded Kristensson in a news release.

The team also plans on making more film resources available by the end of fall season.