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  1. Re:Camera - OT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Bang But No Splash

    about 2 days or however long it takes to ship.

  2. 12,000 FPS isn't a breakthrough by Animats · · Score: 5, Informative · on Digital Video Capture and High Frame Rates?
    You can rent an 11,000 FPS camera right now, for $200 per day. Photek makes a camera that can reach 40,000 FPS, although only with 8mm film frame size. Rotating-prism cameras like this have been around since at least the 1940s. The film advances continuously, and a rotating prism synchs the image to the moving film. Typically the synchronization has been mechanical, which means major problems at very high speed. An obvious upgrade to current technology is to feed the film with rollers or air jets rather than sprockets, detect the sprocket holes or some other form of clock track, and synchronize the rotating mirror prism electronically.

    On the pure digital front, there are units that can record 1000 FPS continuous at 512 x 512 pixels. The system is data-rate limited. The imager can go much faster; if you cut the image size down to 32x128 pixels, you can get 32K frames/sec. At 128 x 128, you can get 11.2K frames/sec. The data goes into a buffer in the control unit (1 GB, typically), and is read out via FireWire. So this system can take a lot more frames than the device described in the article, which stores the images in memory within the imager and can only store 100 images or so.

  3. 12,000 FPS isn't a breakthrough by Animats · · Score: 5, Informative · on Digital Video Capture and High Frame Rates?
    You can rent an 11,000 FPS camera right now, for $200 per day. Photek makes a camera that can reach 40,000 FPS, although only with 8mm film frame size. Rotating-prism cameras like this have been around since at least the 1940s. The film advances continuously, and a rotating prism synchs the image to the moving film. Typically the synchronization has been mechanical, which means major problems at very high speed. An obvious upgrade to current technology is to feed the film with rollers or air jets rather than sprockets, detect the sprocket holes or some other form of clock track, and synchronize the rotating mirror prism electronically.

    On the pure digital front, there are units that can record 1000 FPS continuous at 512 x 512 pixels. The system is data-rate limited. The imager can go much faster; if you cut the image size down to 32x128 pixels, you can get 32K frames/sec. At 128 x 128, you can get 11.2K frames/sec. The data goes into a buffer in the control unit (1 GB, typically), and is read out via FireWire. So this system can take a lot more frames than the device described in the article, which stores the images in memory within the imager and can only store 100 images or so.

  4. Re:Digital High Speed Photography by Skyfire · · Score: 1 · on Exhibition of High Speed Photography

    oh, here is another one by the same company:

    http://www.visiblesolutions.com/phantomv5.html

    It can do 1,000 fps at 1024x1024...

  5. Re:Digital High Speed Photography by Skyfire · · Score: 1 · on Exhibition of High Speed Photography

    Here is a camera that is fairly nice:
    http://www.visiblesolutions.com/phantom.html

    It can do 1,000 fps at 512x512 or up to 32051 fps at 128x32, and others in between, in color or b&w and it has firewire out... sounds pretty cool...

  6. Re:Money Shots by theonetruekeebler · · Score: 1 · on Click! Ultra-High-Speed Digital Camera

    Coincidentally enough, that's exactly what their demo animation looks like, only inoffensively, like how they always use blue liquid in diaper commercials. If any blue liquid ever emits from me or my loved ones we're going straight to the hospital, diaper or no diaper.

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