You get some of the most amazing high resolution motion pictures ever.

The picture you’re seeing at right is a picture taken on a new kind of camera out at the University of Oxford.  Basically, it captures a still picture alongside high speed video, allowing motion blur to be cut out of pictures where the subject, like that drop of milk you see at right falling into a beaker of water, to be almost unnervingly clear.

Originally developed as a scientific tool for observing high-speed biological processes, the camera has a rather strange but at the same time very simple working technique.  Here’s the word from the camera’s inventor, Dr. Gil Bub:

“What’s new about this is that the picture and video are captured at the same time on the same sensor.  This is done by allowing the camera’s pixels to act as if they were part of tens, or even hundreds of individual cameras taking pictures in rapid succession during a single normal exposure. The trick is that the pattern of pixel exposures keeps the high resolution content of the overall image, which can then be used as-is, to form a regular high-res picture, or be decoded into a high-speed movie.”

It’s almost as though there were a wave of pictures being taken within that ten or twelve megapixel field, allowing the camera to take pictures of a single moment over and over again, and then the frames were either allowed to merge into a video or become part of one single image.

Either way, this is an amazing development, as you can see from the pic above.

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