World's fastest camera freezes time at 10 trillion frames per second

Institut national de la recherche scientifique - INRS ^ | Oct 12, 2018

[hal ogen]

When we return from travel I always have thousands of pictures to review and so forth. I can’t wait until I get one of these babies...I’ll have deca-trillions of pictures to review.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Maybe you can catch a trip on a Hyper-Velocity aircraft. They won’t even know you’ve been there.

[Secret Agent Man]

It really messes up your memory card though.

[litehaus]

“The fastest time ever recorded was the time between the light turning green and the idiot behind you is on his horn. /s”

Yeh, BUT ! Now we can watch paint dry and hair grow !

[Delta 21]

So thats just a bit quicker than a smidgen?

[golux]

In other news,
I was so pleased to have finally, in my life,
moved up to LEICA,
(Olympus for 10 years, then Nikon, then, finally Leica,)
but the R4 bodies really are so terrible I am “moving out.”
Two bodies and both have unbearable battery drain and electronics issues.
I’ll keep the lenses and do something else...
I miss my FEs and F3s.
My OMs were miraculous.
Any advice appreciated.
“In Memory of SWAMPSNIPER.”

[NYAmerican]

Was the R4 one of those collaboration bodies with Minolta?

[outofsalt]

Really? More than a B-CUP is wasted.

[golux]

Was the R4 one of those collaboration bodies with Minolta?

I believe so. It's just been a terrible disappointment. They are just noisy, clacky, unreliable bodies. I feel terrible saying it but they really are awful. My first SLR, the OM10 was a far better camera. And I do not trust the line enough to buy a later R. I also shoot Hasselblad C/M and D200; my brother says it's time to move the lenses over to a Sony A7 and be done with film.

[fieldmarshaldj]

*possible ping of interest*

[NYAmerican]

Never owned either one, but I remember well the marketing for the Minolta XE-7, how it was based on internals common to Leica. Never knew the Leica’s in question suffered in quality though. That “connection” was a big force in marketing camera’s back then, i.e. the Contax/Yashica - Zeiss connection, the Rollei - Zeiss relationship, even after the Rollei’s became cheap Singapore camera’s.

[golux]

I have not known CONTAX or Rolleiflex cameras to misperform.

I have a Rolleiflex 35 with Zeiss and Angenieux lenses which is a treasure. I never owned a Minolta camera and to tell the truth Hasselblad has changed the rules on everything. .

The 500c/m is possibly the most beautiful thing I have ever owned or seen, and that includes Bentleys and Ferraris and all sorts of amazing pieces of engineering. There is nothing, at all, that remotely approaches a Hasselblad..

At the same time, I do not think there was ever a better body than my Nikon FE. It was a masterpiece and better than anything else (including possibly my OM4T) at any price. .

The R4s - again - it saddens me deeply to say - are simply not good bodies.

[NYAmerican]

I think the Rolleiflex 35 was German if I remember correctly...the 35M’s were from Singapore, correct?