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Highspeed cameras

CAM 2000 CMOS APS sensor
with over 100 000 frames/sec

Evidently many high-speed camera systems use OEM materials of a couple of manufacturers. That is valid for film and CCD/CMOS systems. Especially in industrial digital high-speed camera systems the former PB-MV13 sensor of Photobit, owned by Micron and then at Aptina as MT9M413C36STC/M (and its successors), is a very common sight. It is easy to identify its specification behind the system descriptions. Also one can find the Fillfactory/Cypress Lupa 1300 and its successors (... -2). Perhaps may be also interesting - the CMOSIS CMV8000. Only a few companies are able to develop or get developed their own camera sensors.
By the way: often these companies offer a more or less broad mixture of systems and equipment - not just only either film or sensor cameras.

Here only an incomplete, non-exhausting and not representative, but maybe subjective list. Just one selection criterion has been whether some sample sequences or photos are shown. There is no validation of corresponding appliances related with, not in the least. Of course, one will find more if one searches with »high-speed photography«, »high-speed camera« or comparable terms in the Internet.
Meanwhile some laboratory set-ups with appropriate image processing have already entered the trillion frames per second region.

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High-speed photography

Basics

• Sensor development, especially for high-speed cameras; examples: historical and present
  CSEM; Zurich, Switzerland

• Edgerton Center at the MIT; examples: bursting balloon and many more; links to other sources
  Edgerton Center; Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

• High speed photo galleries
  pbbase.com

• High-speed imaging; background information, descriptions of the experimental environments, sources ... examples: bursting balloon and several more
  HIVIZ do-it-yourself high-speed photography and digital high-speed imaging of water drops (»splashes«) and other things often animated

• High-speed imaging and background information, blog; numerous examples
  DIYPhotography.net, Photography and Studio Lighting by Udi Tirosh

• High-speed imaging and background information; photos especially of insects in flight
  high-speed-nature.de from Jürgen Schmidt

• Some example photos and a lot of info; also high-speed film cameras, stroboscopy and streak cameras by Professor (ret.)
  Andrew Davidhazy, Rochester Institute for Technology (RIT), especially see EXHIBITS and ARTICLES

• High-speed imaging for use in schools; numerous examples, calculations and background information (especially with consumer high-speed cameras)
  Maximilian Michel am Institut für Didaktik der Physik Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany [in German]

Manufacturers and service providers

• Digital high-speed photos, sequence and single shot cameras, manufacturer and distributor; examples: guns, pistols, revolvers, ... (partly animated)
  Kurzzeit.com, Werner Mehl, Schillingsfürst, Germany

• Free photos (gallery) with short time and ultra short time exposure and descriptions of the experimental environments
  Phototrap, Lakeside, California, USA

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High-speed film and video

Basics

• Coming soon the history of high-speed cameras as book; examples: historical system figures
  Thomas Wald; Brühl near Cologne, Germany

• Especially basic info in the section »learn more«
  Motion Engineering Company (MEC), Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

• Automatic high-speed object tracking with mirrors
  Saccade Mirror, Ishikawa Watanabe Laboratory, University of Tokyo, Japan

Users

• Digital high-speed cameras; example: archery
  Beiter, Werner, Technische Kunststoffteile, Dauchingen, Germany

• Digital high-speed imaging by Dr. Dave; numerous examples
  Colorado State University, Fort Collin, Colorado, USA

• Digital high-speed imaging just for fun
  Mike's Electric Stuff, (Mike Harrison), Great Britain, but in pro style

Service providers

• Industrial and other applications; numerous examples
  DEL Imaging Systems, Cheshire, Connecticut, USA

• Long time recording and software
  GS Vitek Gelnhausen, Germany

• Digital ultra high-speed imaging for science, defense and others; numerous examples
  Itronx Imaging Technologies, Westlake Village, California, USA

• Shooting for scientific, industrial and advertising imaging; numerous high quality examples
  Science-Media, Andechs-Erling, Germany

• Digital high-speed imaging for promotion films and scientific documentation works
  ScienceDocu, Vettweiss-Gladbach, Germany

• Shooting for scientific, industrial and advertising imaging; Cinematography, production of commercials (advertising movies), image processing (»machine vision«), long time recording, streak cameras
  Slomotec, Schlüchtern, Germany

• Digital high-speed cameras for imaging services for industrial applications
  viZaar, Albstadt, Germany

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Manufacturers

Four decades high-speed cameras

High-speed film cameras

• Ultra high-speed cameras (singleshot, rotating mirror); numerous examples: bullet through a pane, explosions
  Cordin, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

• Ultra high-speed drum camera and flashes (drum camera)
  High-Speed Photo-Systeme, Wedel, Germany

• Equipment for high-speed imaging
  Visual Instrumentation Corporation (VIC), Lancaster, California, USA

CCD and CMOS high-speed cameras

• Just as an example for fast cameras out of the image processing »machine vision« sector
  Allied Vision Technologies, Stadtroda, Germany

• Industrial digital high-speed cameras; examples
  AOS, Baden-Dättwil, Switzerland

• Industrial digital high-speed cameras; examples
  Baumer, Frauenfeld, Switzerland and worldwide

• Digital low-cost high-speed camera; numerous examples
  Chronos Cameras (Kickstarter) from Kron Technologies, Canada

• Distribution of simple high-speed cameras, frame grabbers and control software; examples
  Cosyco, Germering, Germany

• Tesin, manufacturer of a »real time« high-speed cameras with stroboscope feature; examples
  Cyclocam, Sint-Denis-Westrem, Belgium

• Better known as high-quality sensor manufacturer; but also offer complete cameras
  Teledyne Dalsa, Waterloo, Canada

• Digital low-cost high-speed camera; numerous examples
  Edgertronic, San Francisco, California, USA

• Portable, battery operated digital high-speed camera; selection guide
  Fastec Imaging Corporation, San Diego, California, USA

• Digital high-speed cameras; numerous examples
  Fast Vision, Nashua, New Hampshire, USA

• Digital infrared high-speed cameras
  Flir Systems, Frankfurt, Germany

• Digital high-speed camera WAVE even for drones; numerous examples
  Freefly Systems, Woodinville, Washington, USA

• Digital ultra fast (streak) cameras
  Hamamatsu Photonics, Hamamatsu City, Japan

• Industrial digital high-speed camera X.Lite; various interfaces incl. USB 3.0; examples: welding, circuit board placement
  Hefel Technik, Dornbirn, Austria

• High-speed camera systems based on PCO and Mikrotron cameras (also former Weinberger cameras); examples: ballerina, bus crash
  HSVISION, Ettlingen, Germany

• Industrial digital high-speed cameras; various interfaces incl. USB 3.0
  IDS, Obersulm, Germany

• Industrial digital high-speed camera systems (»Flare«); various interfaces
  IO Industries, London, Ontario, Canada

• Digital infrared normal and high-speed cameras and equipment
  IRcam, Erlangen, Germany

• Industrial digital high-speed camera; examples (see link Applications)
  JC Labs, La Honda, California, USA

• Industrial digital high-speed camera systems; (»high-speed microscope«); various examples
  Keyence, Itasca, Illinois, USA and others

• Special lenses and intensifiers and know-how
  Lambert Instruments, Roden, The Netherlands

• Ultra high-speed camera systems; examples: ignition in a motor, shooting with an airgun at a match under /products/cameras
  LaVision, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA and Göttingen, Germany

• Special lenses and High Dynamic Range sensors
  Lensation, Karlsruhe, Germany

• Industrial digital USB 3.0, GigE ... high-speed camera distributor
  Matrix-Vision, Oppenweiler, Germany

• Industrial digital CoaxPress high-speed camera distributor; examples
  Maxxvision, Stuttgart, Germany

• Industrial digital high-speed cameras and systems; examples; nature, industry, military
  Megaspeed, Minnedosa, Manitoba, Canada

• Industrial digital high-speed camera systems and image processing systems; examples: bulb, glass of water
  Mikrotron, Eching, Germany

• Industrial digital high-speed cameras; examples
  Optronis, Kehl, Germany

• Industrial digital high-speed cameras with USB 3.0
  PCE Instruments, Meschede, Germany, Southampton, UK

• Industrial digital high-speed cameras; examples
  Photonfocus AG, Lachen, Switzerland

• Industrial portable digital high-speed camera with analogue input channels; examples
  Plexlogger (plextor.jp) from Shinano Kenshi, Ueda City, Japan

• Ultra high-speed cameras and IR distributor
  Quantum Design (ex Lot-Oriel), Darmstadt, Germany

• Digital ultra high-speed cameras (Fast Framing Camera) HPV-2 and HPV-X
  Shimadzu Corporation, Kyoto, Japan

• Industrial digital (high-speed) cameras
  SVS-Vistek, Seefeld, Germany

• Industrial digital (high-speed) cameras; including USB 3.0
  XIMEA, Münster, Deutschland

High-end manufacturers

Empiric »usual suspects« for professional high-end applications, especially in crash test applications

• Digital and film based high-speed cameras (HYCAM, MotionXtra, Motion Pro X ...); examples and History (age-old operating manuals)
  IDT/Redlake, Tallahassee, Florida, USA (former Roper, former Kodak MASD line)
  also service provider Imaging Solutions, Eningen unter Achalm, Germany

• Industrial digital high-speed cameras (i-SPEED)
  iX Cameras (ex Olympus), Locks Hill, Essex, UK

• Digital and tape based high-speed cameras (MEMRECAM, HotShot, ...); examples
  NAC Image Technologies, Tokyo, Japan

• Scientific and industrial digital high-speed cameras; examples
  PCO, Kelheim, Germany

• Digital high-speed cameras; long time recording; accessories, especially for airborne and military applications
  Photo-Sonics, Chatsworth, California, USA

• Digital high-speed cameras (FASTCAM, Ultima APX ...); examples
  Photron, San Diego, California, USA

• Digital high-speed cameras (Phantom V and Miro series ...); examples
  Vision Research, Wayne, New Jersey, USA

• Digital and film based high-speed cameras, especially for crash tests (Stalex, SpeedCam, Visario, Mini-/MacroVis ...); z.B. match (thank you Andrey!)
  former Weinberger, Erlangen, Germany and Dietikon, Switzerland and Weinberger-Service, Nuremberg, Germany

• Shooting for scientific, industrial and advertising imaging; numerous high quality examples, making-of
  Weisscam (HS-1, HS-2), Munich, Germany

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Control and motion analysis software

Existing software for control and motion analysis of/with high-speed cameras

Trajectory evaluation: translation, rotation,
velocity, acceleration and stick-figure animation

• Mikromak WINanalyze, Nuremberg, Germany; especially analysis

• Artho/Weinberger Visart at HS Vision, Karlsruhe, German; especially control

• Falkner Falcon MovXact, Munich, Germany; control or analysis

• Signum Bildtechnik (SigiStudio), Munich, Germany; especially analysis

• HuDe, Erkelenz, Germany; control or analysis

• SIMI°Motion, Unterschleißheim, Germany; especially analysis

• Ingenieurbüro Dr. Gerhard, Munich, Germany; especially analysis

• Contemplas TEMPLO, Kempten, Germany; especially analysis

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Slow motion cameras for consumers

Especially for an insight and an overview just have a look at Aimed-Research, Ohio, USA

Some camera manufacturers in first place Casio or meanwhile GoPro and more and more smartphones offer high-speed camera options. The limitations versus professional high-speed cameras, however, are not negligible. It is highly recommended not to be dazzled by shining maximum values (and the subtly not mentioned heavy reduced resolution and short recording duration). But nevertheless, it's fun.