Cool stuff. Looks like some of the stuff done in the 1950's and 1960's by the legendary MIT professor Harold "Doc" Edgerton. He pioneered high speed stroboscopic photography.
Last year I went to a "High-Speed Imaging" conference for my employer.
They have "cameras" now that can do one BILLION frames a second. Most of the stuff these days is digital, but in the film days there were several ways to do high-speed stuff, besides just pulling the film through the camera at very high speeds.
One way was to have several thousand individual pieces of film, and have a rotating prism, spun by a high speed motor, expose the individual pieces of film. After they were developed, they'd be spliced together to form a movie.
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Cool stuff. Looks like some of the stuff done in the 1950's and 1960's by the legendary MIT professor Harold "Doc" Edgerton. He pioneered high speed stroboscopic photography.
Last year I went to a "High-Speed Imaging" conference for my employer.
They have "cameras" now that can do one BILLION frames a second. Most of the stuff these days is digital, but in the film days there were several ways to do high-speed stuff, besides just pulling the film through the camera at very high speeds.
One way was to have several thousand individual pieces of film, and have a rotating prism, spun by a high speed motor, expose the individual pieces of film. After they were developed, they'd be spliced together to form a movie.
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