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The camera I use to take my high speed videos is a Phantom v5.1, capable of taking a whopping 98,000 frames per second. Well it was whopping, until I stumbled (not stumbleuponededed, just regular stumbled) the Vision Research website and noticed that the Phantom series camera is currently at v12 – suddenly v5 sounds rather dated. This latest camera can record video at an unbelievable 1,000,000 frames per second! I can’t imagine what kind of application would require 1,000,000fps – crack propagation in glass maybe? Apart from being oh so more advanced, it also looks a lot cooler than the v5 – the v5 looks very bulky and square. The v12 is streamlined by comparison. It almost looks like it could glide through water, maybe it’s just the handle that gives me this impression. I could not find any price details on the Vision Research site but considering that the v5 set my college back about €24000, I don’t expect we’ll be upgrading anytime soon.

Some of its more awesome features include

• Maximum Resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels,
• 1,000,000 frames per second at 128 x 8 pixels,
• Minimum exposure time of 300 nano-seconds!,
• Gigabit ethernet connectivity,
• 6400 ISO monochrome, 1600 ISO colour,
• 6242 frames per second at maximum 1280×800 resolution (my videos are usually 4000fps at 480×320!)

These are the most eye catching technical specs – there are plenty more but none that most people wold care about. I think I’ll start saving…

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