Author Topic: Meet the 1,000,000 fps Phantom v1610 (Read 1323 times)

adash · « **on:** August 10, 2011, 03:12:08 AM »

The Phantom® v1610 provides a widescreen CMOS sensor and delivers an impressive speed of 16,000 frames-per-second at full resolution.

* 1280 x 800 resolution
* 28 micron pixel size, 12-bit depth
* 500ns minimum exposure with the FAST option
* 1 μs minimum exposure standard
* Up to 650,000 fps standard or 1,000,000 fps with the FAST option at reduced resolutions

http://www.visionresearch.com/Products/High-Speed-Cameras/v1610/

Of course the size, price and power consumption will not make this the ultimate walk-around camera, but having in mind that the 1,000,000 fps are achieved with a Global electronic shutter only, I think that there is what to wish for in future m4/3 cameras!

popo · « **Reply #1 on:** August 10, 2011, 08:58:03 AM »

1MP near enough FF sensor! 16k fps sounds like fun if you can get around the exposure issues...

overflow · « **Reply #2 on:** August 10, 2011, 10:02:32 AM »

With such large area individual pixels on a FF sensor by my count it should have... over a 5 stop advantage compared to our m43 cameras, so even 1 million fps in broad daylight I think is pretty do-able.

sunny 16 => iso 1000000
open aperture to say... f/2.8 => iso 31250
5 stop advantage => iso 1000 equivalent noise as m43 (12.3Mpix)

That does assume there's no down time between exposures, but still, not too bad, and should be fine for slower frame rates.

voyager · « **Reply #3 on:** August 10, 2011, 04:37:12 PM »

What do you need that many frames per second for!? Best sports photos ever.

lisandra · « **Reply #4 on:** August 10, 2011, 05:46:02 PM »

super duper mega slowmo videos

tamoio · « **Reply #5 on:** August 14, 2011, 01:49:08 AM »

Engineering motion-analysis.

Way back in the 80s I shot several HS 16mm MP cameras that would do maybe 500 to 700 fps. It was incredibly difficult and expensive. Correct threading was paramount, if done wrong the innards would fall out in little pieces after self-destructing. It would take the camera almost 200 feet of film to get up to speed (film of course couldn't withstand instantaneous 500 fps speed) you really didn't have time to manually ramp the aperture to keep up with the camera so you just tried to nail the exposure for the full speed part of the load. Scary noisy too.

adash · « **Reply #6 on:** August 14, 2011, 01:55:41 AM »

Also considering the experiments that those cameras record cost many thousands of dollars per try, and last less than a second, having it running in full speed and correct exposure in the correct moment seems to be utterly important too...

Meet the 1,000,000 fps Phantom v1610