Rapatronic

[ewx]

Nuclear explosions taken with a shutter speed of 10^-8-10^-6s.

There seems to be a shortage of information on the web about how these particular cameras actually worked but brrm dug up this description which says they use Kerr cells (which are more widely described once you know that's what used).

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[tienelle.livejournal.com]

Exploding ammonium nitrate (http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~net20/AN-10.jpeg) taken with an exposure time of 460ns and an inter-frame time of 40ns. I admit it's not as pretty as the nuclear explosions.

Also, on a different experiment, we have a rotating mirror camera from 1950s nuclear tests. It's great, even if we don't have the original shutter system.