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News Release from: Alrad Instruments | Subject: Silicon Video 642
Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial
Team on 08 December 2005
Camera shoots up to 3000fps
Fast frame rates, combined with asynchronous reset and shutter speeds as short as 20 microseconds (1/50,000th of a second) provide sharp images where a standard 30fps camera would miss the action
Epix has introduced a new flexible high speed Cmos camera system The Silicon Video 642 camera has a resolution of 640x480 pixels at 200 frames per second (fps)
This article was originally published on Laboratorytalk on 30 Nov 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Reduced vertical resolution allows frame rates exceeding 3000fps.
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