Fast Camera

MOTION PICTURES of explosive phenomena can now be made at a rate of 15 million frames per second by means of an improved version (see cover) of a high‐speed camera that has been under development at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory for the past several years. An earlier version, “Model 6”, was first described by Berlyn Brixner of the Los Alamos staff in October 1952 at a meeting of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers in Washington, D.C. Then heralded as the fastest known camera, Model 6 was able to take photographs only at the sluggishly slow rate of 3.5 million frames per second.