World´s fastest camera

163 nanoseconds per frame. WOW! 6 Million Frames Per Second. That is almost 4 times faster than the fastest 35mm camera that I've had my hands on. But it was made in 1960.
 
Beckman and Whitley framing camera. Helium Turbine Motor Drive. It's an SLR. And it is very, very big.
 
The advantages of working in a Research Lab. This camera was bought in 1960 for $120,000. Beckman and Whitley cameras are still in use, and this one was being refurbished. The Helium Turbine is used to spin a prism, which is used to expose the stationary strip of 35mm film. It is layed out on a Drum, and each frame is illuminated with a fast strobe light synchronized to the spinning prism.
 
Sounds like a pigtailed photo-detector on the end of a fiber with a 6Mhz A/D convertor, and a bunch of them running in parallel. So if the fiber bundle is run to a camera back such as an NPC Polaroid Camera Back for the Nikon F2,

http://cgi.ebay.com/Nikon-F2-Polaro...5|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318|301:1|293:1|294:50

Then each pigtailed fiber run to the A/D convertor, set the Nikon F2 to "T", hit the data acquisition button- Whammo. Hook up a frame buffer and the solid state recorder.
 
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