An ordinary camera hacked to capture high-speed videos, high-res stills

Gil Bub and Peter Kohl from the University of Oxford have custom built an off the shelf camera to record high-speed videos and click high-resolution stills simultaneously. The developers have fixed a digital chip with tiny mirrors, found in the projectors, between their camera's lens and its image sensor which cuts up every frame of video into 16 lower-resolution frames thus managing 400 frames per second out of the camera. The camera will be a boon for all places and applications which require a combination of speed and detail, e.g. scientific imaging and sports photography, which would derive the benefits of an expensive real motion camera at the cost suitable for the consumer market.

Via: NewScientist