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# [1 Trillion Frames Per Second](https://www.redsharknews.com/technology-computing/item/1424-1-trillion-frames-per-second)

 Written by [Patrick Jong Taylor](https://www.redsharknews.com/author/patrick-jong-taylor) | Feb 5, 2014 12:00:00 AM

**Move over Phantom Flex. There's experimental tech out there that explodes our current conception of slow motion video.**

 As a regular reader of RedShark, I'm sure you're familiar with the [Phantom Flex camera](http://redshark.ebizontech.biz/index.php/2013/04/08/ft-1-to-compete-in-the-same-space-as-alexa-etc/), which is the reigning king of slow-motion video, capable of shooting 4K resolution video at 1000 fps and HD at 2000 fps. While these specs are definitely impressive by today's standards, there is a highly experimental camera system at MIT that may change the way you think of slow motion.

A team led by Ramesh Raskar, head of the MIT Media Lab's Camera Culture research group, developed a camera prototype that images at a whopping 1 trillion frames per second. This burgeoning field of imaging research, called femto-photography, works by shooting individual packets of photons and measuring light information as it scatters.

### Magical Properties

During Rakar's TED talk, he showed video of a packet of photons "slowed down by a factor of ten-billion," hitting and spreading over a Coke bottle. While that may not sound like a big deal, he relayed that if a bullet was slowed down at the same factor, it would take an entire week to watch the video.

According to Rakar, femto-photography is "a new imaging technique so fast that you can create slow-motion videos of light in motion, and with that, you can create cameras that can look around corners, beyond line of sight, or see inside our bodies without an X-ray, and really challenge what we mean by a camera."

### Considering the Future

Granted, Rakar's TED talk (and the video below) first surfaced in 2012, but as our Industry presently undergoes a wide-scale transition to 4K and higher resolution standards, it's fun to look to the technological horizon. Maybe the future isn't about higher resolution or[ wider aspect ratios](http://redshark.ebizontech.biz/index.php/2016/10/19/8k-is-not-the-future-of-tv-we-think-21-9-ultra-widescreen-is-instead/), but a radical definition of video imaging. As Rakar says, we should "stop obsessing about the mega pixels in cameras, and start focusing on the next dimension in imaging. It's about time."

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