Photron debuts world's-fastest camera
High-speed imaging systems manufacturer Photron (San Diego, CA) will demonstrate the newest member of its high-speed technology, the Fastcam SA5, at the 2009 NAB show (www.nabshow.com) in Las Vegas, April 18-23. This camera achieves an unprecedented 7500 frames per second with its megapixel resolution (1024 × 1000) CMOS sensor, with reduced resolution available at a speed of over 1 million frames per second.
The Fastcam SA5 features a 12-bit monochrome, 36-bit RGB color sensor with 20 micron square pixels, for superior dynamic range and color fidelity.
Other cameras at Photron's NAB booth will include the Fastcam SA1, the high-speed imager used to capture the remarkable slow-motion footage on Discovery Channel's Time Warp TV Show (see "Discovery Channel uses Photron cameras to capture high-speed events"). The SA1 was also used during the Beijing Summer 2008 Olympics to capture high speed sporting events and to deliver instant, slow-motion playback.
To view live demos of these and other high-speed video imaging systems at NAB, please visit Photron's booth # SL4725A.
For more information, go to www.photron.com.
Gail Overton | Senior Editor (2004-2020)
Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May 1986.