It has been wonderful following the development of this over the years. I appreciate that you take the time to share it, I can't imagine how crazy busy you must be!
I really love the insight you give into the process of prototyping, designing, designing-for-manufacture, manufacturing, and distributing electronics. There's so much that goes into it that I'd never know about otherwise!
It's only 100K FPS when you have an array of a couple dozen Chronos cameras in sync. Phantom still wins in terms of performance, but, well, you can buy several nice cars for the price of one of their V2511s.
Ryan Willis wait, no, I wasn't talking about ring setup, I meant a single camera at its smallest resolution; the specs on the website for 2.1 state that; as far as I know, even a single chronos 1.4 can do up to 38k fps
Given that its a high speed camera and higher frame rates use reduced resolution to decrease the amount of pixels being processed to allow for faster processing, i would guess it's still windowed at lower resolutions. Also, fancy seeing you here
Incredible how far you have come with this from your first prototype, great job and seeing your 48 camera ring! Impressive and best wishes for your company's future :) Unfortunately it now also has a pricetag where I am out of the customer segment, but I guess there is more money to make from business's than prosumers? I am stuck with my FPS1000HD (not so happy smiley)
Luckily some new smartphones have got great slow-motion cameras which can record 960fps @720p (Samsung S9/S10) or even @1080p (so far only Sony XZ2). You can get some of these phones used for less than $400. Disadvantages are that recording is limited to bursts of approximately 0.4 seconds and a lot of lighting is required to get good shots. There also is no option to further increase the framerate by decreasing resolution.
@@KaizerPowerElectronicsDk if you're careful in how you plan your shots, you can have good results with an Xperia camera. It's like comparing a quick shot taken on a dslr vs a very meticulous setup for similar results with an iPhone or whatever other flagship. They can both be good, but of course if you take your time the dedicated equipment will always be better
@@ProjectPhysX It's not real 960fps, you can clearly see artefacts from framerate interpolation. Physically it can be half of the 960fps or even lower.
@@galaxystudio3740 For some phones (Huawei P20 Pro and others) you're right. On the Samsung phones, the 0.4s recording mode is 480fps with interpolation, however the 0.2s recording mode is true 960fps. Source: www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyNote9/comments/9i09c5/superslowmotion_960_fps_vs_480_fps_same_result/
You could get round case fans (they are affixed with a gel sleeve). In this particular situation, i would've shaved that corned off the fan, mind you. 3 points of contact are more than enough for such a small fan, just my 2 cents.
You would benefit greatly by upscaling the video to 4K before uploading to RU-vid, because RU-vid highly compresses 1080p video with a lot of artifacts. Because I assume the original footage does not have the same level of compression as shown here?
Ok mate. I thought I am a developer when I created an ebike display with arduino and touch lcd. Now I run through few your videos and I found out it was nothing. You are a genius, unbelievable. Good luck with your camera. I dont understand how possible to design such a circuit boards.
This is absolutely insane! I would consider pairing this with full-frame lenses, with a speedbooster, followed by a c mount adapter. You would increase low light performance, and likely render a better image given the modern coatings.
I feel the same too, it's incredible to see an affordable high speed camera but still outside my budget for hobby use. I'm sure it's worth every penny though, the hardware that goes into it is not cheap. The sensor, ram, processor etc and just the time involved in designing it. It's a great price for the type of people that would use it professionally, they'll be able to afford it quite easily and even have multiple going at once.
Hi, I noticed an error on your website. If you try to go to "Store"->"Accessories", you get redirected to the wrong URL, there is a ":" missing after "https". :D
congrats... i remember seen this camera first prototypes years ago.. and it reach 2.0.. just subscribed time ago too see how your project evolves.. maybe a big company some day.
This is awesome, great work. Also realized you're in Canada, that's great. Do these ship from Canada? I'm not in a position to afford one (the price is good for what it is though!) but it's great to know that if I did buy one I may not need to worry about customs.
Hi great video, got me thinking looking at the DDR3 RAM used for storage of footage, is there any reason why I couldnt change this ram to 64gb to extend the recording time
Could you do a side by side comparison between the two screens' brightness? Also would like a more comprehensive frame rate list, maybe 5-10 resolutions?
Is there a reason why you are not offering MFT mounts for this sensor, so customers have access to a wider gamut of high quality lenses? MFT with a speed booster and a nice prime 1.4 would give you really sharp video.
Thank you for the video. Cool cameras, it’s a pity that I don’t have the opportunity to purchase such a camera to shoot my relays. Have to be content with 960 frames (0.2 seconds) in the smartphone.
@@tesla500 peanuts, you will have that in a heartbeat if you stop gifting these left and right to online social media influencers. I don't know how this greasing & lubricating "influencers" are in Canada..a world of difference between Justin Trudeau backbone bending facon and then fx Scandinavia. www.transparency.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/MapindexNZ-1024x973.jpg but Im not judging, but maybe you could get the price down a bit, if you didn't handed these left and right to online influencers but whatever it seems it how you roll. But as MIke electric stuff puts it, it is what it is.
How did you go about making this? I'm kind of interested as I want to explore the world of embedded Linux on single-board computers and interfacing MIPI sensors. You literally built a camera so I don't know anyone better to ask!
@@BSPBuilder MIPI (CDI and DVI) uses LVDS, between 2 and 4 LVDS lanes and LVDS clock. MIPI is a protocol (like I2C, SMbus, CAN, SPI, UART, etc) and LVDS is just a way of signalling 1s and 0s. So I don't know what alternative protocol you are referring to. I know some older lower resolution LCD panels used 80MHz parallel interface prior to MIPI DSI.
Indeed, had the same idea :) Since its hardware is very much recyclable, a HW-upgrade, maybe using a Trade-In option for a lower fee might actually be feasible :)
I don't think it would actually save much money. He's had to pretty extensively modify it... you could conceivably re use the case and charging board but that's about it; the sensor board and compute board are new. Not much of a savings I expect. Maybe it is possible to adapt the connection of the older compute board and the new sensor board but I expect this, while probably plenty possible, is still not trivial, especially in the very limited space. Perhaps he could produce a new sensor board that uses the old connector (for upgrades) - this would be more realistic, but also adds production cost sooo yeah.
when I watch Dustin Farrell`s two lightning videos Transient 1 and 2, how could I not find this a very tempting purchase at about 1/15th of the price? But it`s a year on and they don`t seem much closer to getting it into our hands. I`d like to be corrected
We've got about 40 of them shipped so far, right now we're waiting on more image sensors to be able to build more cameras. We bought out every sensor Luxima had in stock, more are on the way, but semiconductor manufacturing has a long lead time, and the virus situation has also slowed things down. Sit tight, we should have good supply by June.
My dream has been wanting to be able to afford one of your amazing cameras, Perhaps someday?... Please keep up the awesome R&D work and cheers from a fellow Canadian Dave!!!
Just for my interest: is there anything on a lower budget that goes above 240fps (like the GoPro Hero 7 Black)? I don't mind tinkering, But something above 1200fps in atleast 720p maybe? We need it for a non-profit scientific animal research. All is paid with my private money, I'm just an idealist :)
DDR4 has a very high minimum clock speed, about 1GHz, so high that low end FPGAs will likely not support it for years. DDR3 will be around for quite a while sill.
@@tesla500 How about PCI-E/Thunderbolt cameras that can be connected to a computer? Could just have the sensor DSP on-board, like machine vision manufacturers do? (Ximea xiB for example)? www.ximea.com/en/products/pci-express-high-speed-cameras-xib/fast-speed-models-64-gbps/cb019mg-lx-x8g3
why are the memory options so expensive? i looked up some ram with the same specs as the modules at 6:23, but they're much less than $1000 for the 32gb.
The memory is relatively cheap, but it took months of engineering effort to get 32GB working due to lack of support from the FPGA vendor Lattice. The price is to recoup this engineering expense.
@@tesla500 I suppose that makes sense, I just would have expected that would come out of the base price. 6 of one half a dozen of the other i guess. Is it possible for someone to buy the 8gb option, and upgrade to 32gb on their own? that would be my worry.
@@MrBazsi888 The upgrading memory thing? Well, if we assume he saw the second question and chose not to answer it, which isn't a given, I would conclude that the answer is yes, but he didn't want to choose between either lying, or giving away that anyone can have the 32gb option for much cheaper
Pony on Board? :D I see 1920*8@100000fps resolution in the datasheet. What is it good for? :D 190*96 resolution has the same pixel quantity. Does the camera shoot 100k fps in that resolution too? If I am correct, this should be an available image size (32 pixel steps in horizontal, 2 pixel steps in vertical resolution) I like the upgrade anyway. 960fps is already capable to show interesting things even in mobile phones :)
