

The SP2000 was first introduced in 1981, a full decade ahead in performance over any other high speed camera. This camera also used a Block Readout sensor with 240 x 192 pixels 8 bits at 12,000 fps. Kodak MASD manufactured a similar high speed camera before the Photron Rabbit called the Kodak SP2000. Photron manufactured various version of this high-speed camera system ( Photron Rabbit, Kodak HS4540, Photron Ultima 40K and the Photron FASTCAM SE all using the same image sensor) from 1990 to 2006. The FASTCAM Ultima 10K has been used in ballistic studies, airbag design and qualification studies, combustion studies, flow visualization studies such as aerosol dispersion and many other high-speed camera applications. The system could be controlled from a computer through an RS-232 interface sending simple ASCII commands. The camera cable could be up to 15m from the Processor. Ancillary information would be display as OSD (On-Screen-Data). Live video images could be displayed on NTSC or PAL monitors. Digital image data could be read from the Processor through a SCSI interface. And within one block, one half to one fourth of the block can be partially read out. The image sensor is divided into 16 blocks where each block is 256 x 16 pixels. The Ultima 40K image sensor reads images in blocks which is commonly called a Block Readout sensor. At 4,500 fps and maximum memory, the recording time is 5.46 seconds. The FASTCAM Ultima 40K processor came with three memory configurations that allowed full frame storage of 8192 images (512 MB), 16,384 images (1GB) or 24,576 images (1.5 GB). As an example, 40,500 FPS is achieved with a resolution of 64 x 64 pixels at 8 bits. By reducing the resolution, the frame rate for recording can be increased. The FASTCAM Ultima 40K native resolution is 256 x 256 pixels x 8 bits at 4,500 FPS. The Kodak HS4540 and the Photron Ultima 40K are the same camera, just different trade names. However, the camera was trade branded previously in 1992 as a KODAK MASD product. Photron FASTCAM Ultima 40K was introduce in 2000. It is part of the Photron FASTCAM line of cameras, introduced in 1996. The Photron FASTCAM Ultima 40K is a 256 x 256 High-speed camera. ( February 2016)ġ0.24 mm x 10.24 mm 2/3 format NMOS Interline Please introduce links to this page from related articles try the Find link tool for suggestions. These two products ushered in a new class of cameras which were low cost with relatively high speed image capture that was not previously available.This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it. The FASTCAM Super 10K could record 250 FPS while the Redlake Motionscope could record 240 fps. Both products used the same CCD sensor (7.4 um pixel. It has been verified by the manufacture that over 4000 Motioncorders/Super 10K cameras were produced from 1996 to 2005.Īnother popular High-speed camera from this era was the Redlake Motionscope. The FASTCAM Super 10k has been used in many diverse applications such as production line troubleshooting, packaging machine design and university research.

FASTCAM CAMERA SOFTWARE
The camera cable could be up to 16m from the Processor. Using a Photron FASTCAM APX High-Speed Camera with MiDAS DA Date Published: March 2010 Revised: December 2012 Abstract This application note describes the hardware connections and software settings for using MiDAS DA software with a Photron FASTCAM APX model high-speed video camera running Photron PFV (Photron FASTCAM Viewer) software.

With the maximum memory, the camera can record 2,184 images or 8.73 seconds of record time at 250 FPS. The Processor could hold either 128 MB, 384 MB or 512 MB. The FASTCAM Super 10K came with three different memory storages capabilities. The 10,000 FPS requires the resolution be reduced to 128 x 34 pixels at 8 bits. As an example, 1000 FPS is achieved with a resolution of 256 x 240 pixels at 8 bits. The FASTCAM Super 10k native resolution is 512 x 480 pixels x 8 bits at 250 FPS. The Kodak Motioncorder and the Photron FASTCAM Super 10K are the same camera, just different trade names. Photron FASTCAM Super 10k was introduce in 2000. The Photron FASTCAM Super 10K is a 512 x 480 High-speed camera. This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it.
