The camera can show a bullet-shaped pulse of light travelling from one end of a laboratory flask to another in a fraction of a second but Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) said that it would take some time for the camera to be commercially available.
Researchers at MIT's 'blue-sky science' think tank envisage that super-fast photography could benefit mankind within 10 years and could even lead to hand-held medical scanners being used in hospitals.
The camera, which captures images at one trillion exposes per second, can also produce 3D images, as it is competent of 'seeing' photons of light even inside objects.
The device was created by adapting a 'streaker tube' - used by chemists to scan and capture light. It can record the progress of light pulses through a flask of liquid.
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