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THIS is how you do a kickstarter project! A awsome and original product, designed by one guy in his garage. No bullshit, no marketing wank, just engineering!

Don't turn it on.... Take it ahpaahht

Tesla500 Is such a badass, I think developing something on this scale is insanely cool. He is a legend.

I love how your completely honest about the pros and cons, and not a butt kisser like a lot of other guys !!!

Awesome review. I'm really loving the unit David sent me.

this seems pretty cool! For comparison the Phantom Flex 4K does 5300fps at 720p where this camera does 1500. HOWEVER, this is $2500 and the phantom flex 4k is $110,000. Remarkable pricing for how well it performs

Absolutely astonishing. One man with all these skills: Electronics and hardware design, FPGA code, User interface, Mechanical design, machining.

let the smoke out at 21k fps! for your EEVsmoke segment :D

I recently watched your "how I got started in electronics" video and you were talking about the communication revolution and that these days, a single person can change the world of electronics. I think this is exactly what we're looking at.

Does this mean we can watch the magic smoke escape?

Argh, it's 4AM here.. oh well, what's another 24 mins. :)

Is he the lawn mower man ? Seen high speed footage slowed down with random shit dropped into an upside down lawn mower blades, good stuff !

That makes me invoke the spirit of AvE; that thing looks skookum as fuck!

who cares about grip? its gonna be on a tripod anyways

Dave, when it says "save directory is not writable" that's not a bug, that's actually a bad microSD card (or on it's way). I had issues with my SanDisk Ultra, when I used it with a dashcam, the dashcam just started to stop recording around 15 minutes to a drive and throw out I/O error after a month of use. SanDisk also specifically says that they aren't under warranty when you use them in such cases; (or atleast when it's not purpose made for highspeed cameras or high endurance); www.sandisk.com/about/legal/warranty/warranty-apac "This warranty does not cover use of the Product in connection with the following uses or devices (as determined by SanDisk): (i) normal wear and tear, ... (iv) in-car recording devices/dashboard cameras/black box cameras, (v) display devices that loop video, (vi) continuous recording set top box devices, (vii) continuous data logging devices like servers, or (viii) other excessive uses that exceed normal use in accordance with published instructions. For information on SanDisk products intended for use in connection with the uses and devices noted in points (i) -(vi), above, please visit our product page for high endurance products located here." I was able to continue using the card in a smartphone, but you probably shouldn't continue to use it in the camera.

you broke the golden EEVBlog rule.... Tear it down !!

Nice to see TESLA500 being here on EEV hehe

The sensor is a Luxima LUX1310.

I could even live with those bugs for that price. Brilliant!

It runs Linux. I'll order 2.

The project has already reached it's goal ! Amazing.

In addition to designing all the electronics and software, he machined the case parts out of solid aluminium on a mill in his garage. He even had to rebuild the mill before it would work well enough for this purpose!

This thing is the GoPro of high speed cameras, a real game changer!

Be the 4 tapped holes in the face of the unit are for mounting a good ring light to the unit.

Can we expect a teardown video sometime soon? :) Oops, didn't see to the end.

19:01 - fantastic! My dad had (has?) one of those Accutron watches, and I always greatly admired it. Cool to see it in slowmo! Nice review... I say, 4+ years later. ;)

Dave! You turned it on instead of apart?! That interface really looks like a default linux distribution. (not saying it's a bad thing, i'm just wondering what flavor it is)

I really respect the focus and tenacity required to create such a complex device!

I have absolutely no need for this, but I want one.

This is actually very reasonable priced, considering the price of HW & other things! UI seems really nice & user friendly. Thumbs up! :)

~ @17:10 lovely interface. Being able to scan through the frames like that is brilliant and also at different speeds!

A proper, genuine, well engineered, with prototype to hand KickStarter...............brilliant!

Been watching him build this over the last year i have been watching his channel :)

Been waiting for this video, but now I'm eager to hear your thoughts on the teardown. From the video on his channel it looks pretty well designed.

You are right it should be Khronos. However the Khronos name is already taken by the Khronos group that manages GPU interface software standards like OpenGL and Vulkan.

Really impressive piece of kit! Will be cool to see how the final product turns out.

Great vid Dave, comes at the perfect time as well. Me and my collegues have been looking for a highspeed camera for our lab for quite some time, but consumer grade usually doesn't go far enough and professional gear usually starts at 10k. Inbetween is nothing but vast emptiness (and recently a kickstarter or two), which I hope this camera will fill. Since it's Kickstarter we are always carefull, but seeing this vid certainly increased my confidence. we had this one on our watch list as well and seeing a bit more hands on stuff is really great. Can't wait for the tear down!

this is the most high end maker product to date. great effort.

The highspeed camera is an amazing feat of engineering and electronics. 1500fps is not that much nowadays because even phones do 240fps nowadays, but the lowres options get crazy speeds

It will be interesting to see the tear down of this device so we can find out what goes in to making a high speed digital camera. One simple improvement to the software would be the option of having the sliders and buttons on the left or right side of the screen.

Ordered mine. :) First camera I have ever wanted.

Nice, I've been waiting for this.

That's an amazing piece of work, even more so for the price. There are 35mm prosumer cameras in that price range. With the right marketing I expect he can sell 10s of thousands of them before the big companies introduce a competitive model. As for the grip, how many people shoot high speed hand held when doing real work, rather than a review? I'd expect nearly all use will be tripod or steady cam mounted, not hand held. If it's really needed hand held, get a grip mount to hold onto. That would let you mount a trigger input button where the grip mount has its shutter button and solve your issue with the on camera shutter button. I wonder if you could mount enough super bright LEDs around the lens to provide light for this? Like a light ring on steroids? Might be a use for those threaded holes on the front. Now to go check out the Kickstarter page... -- Mike

4:01 Nice juicy *clonk* of the battery door falling, lovely!

Also noticed when you/Dave had DC power connected there was nothing to indicate charging or running directly from that power source.

The electrons are going to fall out? Are you positive?

I want to see this tear down done in the standard format with Dave figuring it out as he goes and tesla500 shouting "Wrong" over his shoulder and correcting him constantly.

I think your the 3rd channel I sub to that has one of these. I can't wait to see the production model and final firmware.

"All the electrons will fall out" Dave-2016 I laughed harder than i should lol

The rubber grip material used on many SLR cameras is available from manufacturer's like 3M. The grip material used by Talon Grips which sells laser-cut grips for firearms is fantastic feeling and should work fine for this application. A 4x8" sheet of the stuff is like $5 on eBay.

envy the designer.... hats off Dave !

I'm afraid my wife won't get me one of these for Christmas.

I've been following his channel for quite a while now and ive been wondering what he's been up to. it's super awesome to see he's been developing this camera. I was hoping he was goimg to do something with all the high speed teardowns over the years.

I sub'ed his channel a couple of weeks ago, he's got some really interesting projects as well.

It's an amazing bit of kit he's come up with, it's certainly very good value for money.

Great vid, awesome device.... Looking forward to the tear-down. I wonder if the slow mo guys would review this too, see how they get on with it.

Makes you wonder if you could replace the RAM Modules with 2x16GB to get more recording time. I suppose recording directly to an SSD over SATA won't be fast enough?

awesome project and the fact that is designed by a single guy.. amazing!

Holy shit, I'm blown away by this! Hats off to Mr Kronstein, I hope he goes far :D

So close yet so far away! This is truly game changing and fantastic, i have done a lot of crap alone but nothing like this i hope this starts driving down the costs for everything else and i hope he will do a second batch when i can afford it!

I wouldn't kick about small cosmetics at the prototype phase. The real deal is whether it works properly, and/or can be made to do so. It's just as hard to develop the prototype as it is to perfect it. They're both Herculean tasks.

Coooool :) Must say he did a very excellent job! Not that expensive actually, considering how much time he must have put into it.

It'd be awesome to have a usb mouse input for controlling the GUI when using a large field monitor :)

of course the resolutions are too low to be used in something like a film, right? or does scaling up with that many frames of reality still look okay somehow

Great Scott, it's already reached the goal.

Regular consumer high speed camera manufactures are screwed when their customers find this product. Love it!

I dont think this camera is designed to work like a handheld camera, obviously when you are taking an image at a high speed you will need it to be as much steady and fixed as possible, so the holding issue is not actually considered as an issue at all, think about it, who would be holding a high speed camera when taking an image @10K frames\S :D

I like Qt gui menu :)

bravo, I'm so impressed with this guy's work. wish I could justify spending the money, personally, which I think is well worth the price. I love how he touts c++ for the performance. an embedded engineer after my own heart.

This is epic! I would love to see the BOM on this.

I like how the video is at 1080p50

i ve seen the development of that camera and looks nice!! Looks nice a good work!

So so awesome! But it really needs a better lens!(!!!) A lot of the contrast issues and softness/abberation in the picture is probably due to the lens (The bird clip really shows that), I would love to see a take with a good quality lens!

might be too small to get this right, but the jog wheel would be nicer with some weight in it to keep it spinning.

Dave, you might want to fix the "Chonos" type in your description :-)

I would think that the reason he didn't use the name 'Kronos', Dave, is because that's already a workforce application company. (For employee timekeeping systems, for instance.)

I read on his web site that getting h.264 support was a bit of a challenge. But is that even an appropriate format for a high speed camera? I would have guessed something like M-JPEG or M-JPEG 2000, since you're most likely going to edit it in a non-linear editor and re-encode anyway. Should also be more convenient for scientific or industrial use, and dedicated JPEG hardware should be very ubiquitous.

One word comes to mind, "Damn!"

Teardown incoming....wooooo! can't wait!!

nice Camera, it would be nice to have a separate side handle so as not to interfere with screen, a cover over plugs attaching to bnc

The name "Kronos" will probably end in a cease and desist from CBS...

3:18 "you don't want to be dickin around"

Awesome review! I so want one :) Good on the camera as well ..

Dave -- when is the teardown video?

i actually want one

I know you are complaining about the grip just to be thorough but honestly who is going to hold the camera and take high speed recordings while holding it... honeslty its just going to be on a tripod anyway love this product though really sticks it to the large corporations.

Does the blur come from the lens? I mean, the resolution is not that high, but I guess the image could look a lot better with that resolution. Otherwise an impressive job, the playback with the knob is awesome.

beautiful piece of engineering.

hoping to see some caps blow up...

Record an electrical arc in slow motion?

I would highly recomend he add SDI in addition to HDMI its the interface most pro stuff uses. Change that mini to a full sized B or USB C too. EDIT, oh and a few connectors for LED lighting , you need loads and loads of light at high frame rate as i am sure you will know.

Should have a go at capturing the lightening in high speed.

Dave, i dont know if u take suggestion, but it would be interesting that u made a video about a problem of some LCD monitor that "hum/resonate" when a certain power requirement is asked. (maybe u have already done it xD)

Need a teardown!

Surprise surprise, another engineer Dave...... :D

Nice cam, next a teardown?

Thumbs up!

Nice gift!

Gotta catch those electrons before they hit the ground!

I think that the grip is a non-issue since it really is meant to live on a tripod