Phantom V1610

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Whats that? 100 frames per second not slo-mo enough for you? How about 1,000? Really? Well, how about one million? That's what we thought. Okay, so the Phantom v1610 Camera ($100,000) can only reach that insane number by cranking the resolution down to an animated GIF-esque 128x16, but it can still take 720 HD video at a staggering 18,100 fps, or way faster than you'll need to properly capture your next Diet Coke and Mentos misadventure.

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Shooting 4.5 million frames per second of molecules using an x-ray flash is impressive, but can non-scientific cameras come anywhere close? The answer is yes: Vision Research has a new Phantom high speed camera called the v1610 that can capture footage at a whopping 1,000,000fps. Granted, the resolution needs to be a paltry 12816 for that fps, but at a full 1280800 it still shoots at 16,000fps. To give you an idea of what 1 million fps is like, consider this: 1 second of the footage will provide you with 9.25 hours of uber-slow motion 30fps video.

CMOS sensor

Vision Research's proprietary, custom-designed sensor has large 28 micron pixels, ensuring superb light-sensitivity which is essential in high-speed imaging. Standard 12-bit depth per pixel yields high dynamic range and provides excellent image quality. The rectangular shape of the 1 Mpx sensor allows the user to keep moving objects in the frame longer and is compatible in aspect ratio with modern display technology.

Versatile connections

The v1610 has common signal connections conveniently located on its back panel. Connections include timecode, dual power inputs fr battery backup, 2x HD-SDI outputs, a GPS input, frame synchronization, and trigger. The two HD-SDI ports can be configured in several ways acting as identical 4:2:2 HD-SDI ports where one port can be set up to provide an (optional) on-screen display for monitoring the on-camera controls and camera operation. They can also be configured as a single 4:4:4 Dual-Link HD-SDI port.

Deployment

The Phantom V1610 is an excellent tool for researchers, scientists and engineers who need to capture high-resolution images at ultra-high speeds. It offers a window to view events previously too fast to see and analyse

Vision Research has revealed the latest addition to its line of digital high-speed cameras, in the form of the Phantom v1610. It shoots videos at an impressive speed of 16,000 fps, at a resolution of 1280 x 800. However, if the number of pixels is reduced to just 128 x 16, the speed can be increased to a whopping 1 million frames recorded every second. While that's less than the X-ray camera that shoots at 4.5 million fps, the Phantom v1610 is not a scientific one-of-a-kind device.

The company is already known for its Phantom Flex camera that was introduced last year, and is capable of capturing Full HD (1920 x 1080) videos at 2,800 fps. While the v1610's maximum resolution is "only" 1280 x 800 pixels, its standard speed is significantly higher. The frame rate of 1 million fps is available via an optional FAST feature which is implemented on request, while without FAST it's as high as 600,000 fps at the lowest resolution.

Utilizing Vision Research's proprietary widescreen CMOS 35.8 x 22.4 mm sensor, the Phantom v1610 can save footage at the speed of 16 gigapixels per second (for comparison, Phantom Flex's throughput is 6 gigapixels/second). The sensor's pixel size is 28 microns with 12-bit depth per pixel.

The camera comes with 24GB, 48GB, or 96GB of internal RAM, while it's also compatible with the non-volatile Phantom CineMag storage system - it features up to 512 GB of capacity, which reportedly makes it easier and faster to save and download footage.

To call Vision Research's new Phantom v1610 a high-speed video camera is like calling a Bugatti Veyron Super Sport "nippy." When ordered with the equally redundantly-named FAST option, the camera will shoot video at 1 million frames per second.

Vision Research acaba de presentar su ltima creacin en cmaras que graban vdeo de alta velocidad dentro de la familia v-Series. El nombre de la protagonista, Phantom v1610, y es capaz de grabar 16.000 imgenes por segundo en alta definicin.

Tiene un modo de trabajo especial denominado FAST en el que la resolucin baja a 12816 pxeles, pero con el que el muestreo sube hasta el milln de imgenes por segundo. La verdad es que no me haga a la idea de la utilidad de este modo.

Claramente no es un producto orientado al consumidor popular, sino una herramienta de trabajo para investigadores, cientficos, ingenieros, o incluso para ser utilizado en tomas especiales de pelculas de cine.

El sensor diseado por la gente de Vision Research puede capturar hasta 16 gigapixeles por segundo de informacin, todo un problema a la hora de almacenar tanto dato. Por ello se ofrece con un espacio de almacenamiento externo llamado Cinemag de 256GB y 512GB, ambas soluciones son bastante fciles de rellenar con los nmeros en los que nos movemos.

En cuanto a memoria RAM de alta velocidad, tambin es variable, y las opciones van desde los 24GB hasta los 96GB de memoria. La montura de serie de esta nueva Phantom es Nikon, pero tambin est disponible con Canon, y otra opciones.

Todava no hay muestras de la cmara grabando, as que para hacernos una idea de las posibilidades de la cmara recurrimos a la cmara PVM-21 diseada por Werner Mehl, echad un vistazo al vdeo:

By using high-speed imaging systems, Professor Christoph Brcker, Head of the Fluid Mechanics & Machines department at the Institute for Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics at the University of Freiberg (Freiberg, Germany) has embarked on a project to test the efficiency of internal combustion engines.

"Our goal is to create car engines that need less fuel to generate more power. To do this, the motion of the fluids in the engine must be analyzed. This analysis provides insight into how the air and fuel injected into the engine might be modified to generate power more efficiently," Brcker says.

To analyze the speed and direction of the fluid, tracer particles are first injected into the engine and illuminated with a laser light sheet. By scanning a large number of image planes as the laser beam is shifted, this scanning Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) technique and allows a single camera to be used to make 3D measurements of the fluid flow. By comparing successive images, the velocity of the fluids and which direction they are moving can be calculated.

To begin his study of fluid dynamics, Brcker and his colleagues built internal combustion engines with special viewing windows. Then, using a Phantom v1610 digital high-speed camera from Vision Research Ft. Wayne, NJ; www.visionresearch.com), images and viewed, recorded, and measured the velocity of the fluids inside the engine from that map.

"The Phantom v1610 camera can capture 16,000 fps at full resolution and 1,000,000 fps at reduced resolution. "Frame rate is important when studying the flow of fluids. The v1610 enabled us to map the 3D velocity within one complete cylinder of a car engine. With the camera, we discovered the 3D nature of the flow structures and vortices. This helped us to understand the dynamics of what's happening inside the engine," Brcker explains.

Based on Vision Research's proprietary 1280 x 800 CMOS sensor, the v1610 sensor features 28-micron pixels that increase the sensitivity of the imager. "Since a traditional lighting setup could not be used, the only lighting was the light from the diffused laser sheet. However, that proved to be sufficient." he says.

Imaging at such high-speeds also demands that a large amount of data be stored rapidly. Using the v1610's 96GByte of on-board of memory and Vision Research's CineMag interface allowed Brcker to transfer images from camera memory to non-volatile storage in a matter of seconds.

Brcker's experiment is ongoing, and one that he believes will have significant impact on the fuel emissions of today's automobiles. "With the data captured with the v1610, our research team now better understands the dynamics of internal combustion engines," he says.

Vision Research has just unveiled the newest addition to their digital high speed cameras line, the Phantom v1610 camera, which can shoot up to an amazing 1 million frames per second at the lowest resolution. At a resolution of 1280x800px, this new camera can shoot high speed videos at an impression speed of 16,000 frames per second.

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