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About an hour ago, YouTuber AlphaPhoenix may have changed the history of cameras with his garage experiment. And reinvented lightspeed nanosecond #highspeed #slowmotion video technology to under 1% cost.
By mapping a rotating lens connected to an oscilloscope measuring laser reflections — over and over again — he’s kind of doing a reverse #Matrix “bullet time” to create a billion-frames-per-second image … he’s mapped the oscilloscope x-axis to the time dimension and synchronised it with a pulsing laser.
He even filmed his biggest eureka moment and you get to see it. Congratulations, you genius bastard 
Correction: Billion-fps not trillion-fps.
I made a table of every high speed frame rate and the camera you’ll get it from
He is still firmly in the “experimental” category, in a geostationary orbit above all the “industrial” and even “specialist” categories — he can proudly say his is one of only two entries with a frame rate of too many digits to display (I’m not widening it — it’s a badge of honour)
I added Slow-Mo Guys who started out at 28,000fps
(Wow, I like my table … I built it after Gav & Dan mentioned that they chose 100fps for a reason, and I needed to endorse 100fps for high frame rates)
And … AlphaPhoenix makes an impressive debut at #2 in the league table 
giving world champion, the MIT CUP Streak Camera, a bit of a fright by a guy, in a cave, with a box of scraps
