High-speed camera for ballistics testing, fluidics, biomechanics, and sports offered by Photron

Nov. 6, 2013
SAN DIEGO, 6 Nov. 2013. Photron Inc. in San Diego is introducing the small, lightweight FASTCAM Mini UX100 high speed camera for ballistics testing, fluidics, biomechanics, off-board automotive imaging, broadcasting, life sciences, and sports applications.
SAN DIEGO, 6 Nov. 2013. Photron Inc. in San Diego is introducing the small, lightweight FASTCAM Mini UX100 high speed camera for ballistics testing, fluidics, biomechanics, off-board automotive imaging, broadcasting, life sciences, and sports applications.

The one-piece high speed imager provides 1,280-by-1,024 pixel resolution to 4,000 frames per second (fps), 1,280-by-720-pixel high-definition (HD) resolution to 6,400 fps, and reduced-resolution operation to 800,000 frames per second.

The global electronic shutter operates down to 1 microsecond to provide blur free, black-and-white imagery with 12-bit pixel depth, or 36-bit pixel depth for the color images.

Light sensitivity is ISO 12232 Ssat certified at 8,000 ISO 12-bit monochrome; 4,000 ISO for the 36-bit color version. The camera comes in 120-millimeter-by-120-millimeter-by-90-millimeter package that weighs 3.3 pounds.

The camera comes with three onboard memory options to 16 gigabytes, as well as with the FASTCAM Mini UX1000 CMOS sensor that has 10-micron square pixels. The camera includes a Gigabit Ethernet interface, to 64 available memory partitions, F-mount (G-type lens compatible) and C-mount lens mounts, and a trigger mode that offers start, center, end, manual, and random control.

For more information contact Photron online at www.photron.com.

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