{"id":12630,"date":"2008-01-24T17:43:37","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T17:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/01\/one-miiiillion-images-per-second.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T17:43:37","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T17:43:37","slug":"one_miiiillion_images_per_second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/one_miiiillion_images_per_second\/","title":{"rendered":"One *miiiillion* images per second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dang&#8211;and I thought <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2008\/01\/casio_spitfire.html\">1,200fps<\/a> was pretty impressive, but that&#8217;s <em>so<\/em> last week.<\/p>\n<p>The camera fiends at Vision Research have trotted out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2008\/01\/23\/vision-crosses-the-million-pictures-per-second-with-phantom-v12\/\">Phantom V12<\/a>, a crowd pleaser said to be capable of grabbing 1MM images per second (if you can live with 256&#215;8 resolution; resolution goes up as frame rate goes down).&#160; Their gear is &#8220;targeted at industrial applications ranging from biometric research to automotive crash testing,&#8221; they say.  &#8220;Essentially,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2007\/04\/26\/vision-researchs-miro-3-snaps-2200-frames-per-second\/\">opines<\/a> Engadget, &#8220;this little bundle of joy is meant to be strapped into daredevil-type situations in order to grab as many photos as possible within a split second.&#8221;&#160; Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visionresearch.com\/\">company Web site<\/a> for videos of a popcorn kernel popping and more. [Via Jerry Harris] <\/p>\n<p>The proliferation of these high-speed capture devices makes me remember a talk given last year at Adobe by Microsoft researcher <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/displayArticle.aspx?id=689\">Michael Cohen<\/a>.&#160; He described the idea of &#8220;thick photos&#8221;&#8211;essentially taking little movies instead of single frames, making it possible to select the perfect moment in a series.&#160; This development will probably further irritate photo purists, but I&#8217;d like to see a camera maker take a run at the idea. <\/p>\n<p><em>[Update: Michael points out that his ideas are covered in some detail in <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/~cohen\/TheMomentCamera_Final.pdf\">this paper<\/a>.&#160; His <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/~cohen\">own page<\/a> offers more technical bits.] <br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dang&#8211;and I thought 1,200fps was pretty impressive, but that&#8217;s so last week. The camera fiends at Vision Research have trotted out the Phantom V12, a crowd pleaser said to be capable of grabbing 1MM images per second (if you can live with 256&#215;8 resolution; resolution goes up as frame rate goes down).&#160; Their gear is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12630"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}