> I find it interesting that these cameras and videos claim to capture photons as they travel through the air.
Where do they claim that?
A camera needs light to hit a sensor. It can't "sense" the presence of a photon at some arbitrary point in space.
That being said, I just bought a 5 mW green laser pointer, which is quite fun to play with. If you point it so the beam is in front of a dark background, you can actually see the light ray. So if we filmed this laser pointer, using the camera in question, we should be able to literally see the light ray move towards the object it's pointed at.
Where do they claim that?
A camera needs light to hit a sensor. It can't "sense" the presence of a photon at some arbitrary point in space.
That being said, I just bought a 5 mW green laser pointer, which is quite fun to play with. If you point it so the beam is in front of a dark background, you can actually see the light ray. So if we filmed this laser pointer, using the camera in question, we should be able to literally see the light ray move towards the object it's pointed at.