Four Billion Pixels A Second – The Future Of Films?

When we watched Avatar it’s fair to say that most of us were pretty amazed – the graphics looked stunning and the whole experience was beautiful. Now though, a new camera developed by Japanese broadcasting company NHK looks set to make that look like nothing more than a page from a schoolboy’s sketchbook as it shoots 33 megapixel footage at 120 frames per second.

The initial plans were to create a camera recording at 60 FPS, but this was doubled when it was decided that it might make fast moving objects a little blurry – and it’d be unfortunate if the developers went through all that work only to produce an image which looks like you’ve forgotten to put your glasses on.
A frame rate of 120 per second is huge; cinemas tend to show film footage at 24 FPS, which is exactly one fifth of what the new camera is capable of.