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Light Speed Q&A: Can Cameras Capture Light?
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[QUOTE="jfizzix, post: 5589081, member: 190322"] They did record the light, but they didn't capture it all in one go. As I understand it, they can capture a single string of pixels' intensities with a "shutter speed" that's phenomenally fast, because of electronic switching of the photodetectors instead of actual shutters. What they do is shoot the pulse of light again and again, to get the intensity distribution of every pixel over the total number of frames needed for the movie. It would be a painstaking and laborious process if computers weren't so good at what they do. [/QUOTE]
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