Fastec Imaging has announced its IL5 High-Speed Camera, which enables users to record any gears, motors, machinery, mechanical or robotic equipment that is moving too quickly to process with the naked eye.
By using slow motion replay, the user can see what they have been missing with normal speed video and analyse the performance of equipment for testing and improvement purposes. The camera has recording speeds of over 630 frames per second at HD 1080p resolution, over 3200fps at VGA resolution and more than 29,000fps at smaller resolutions. Images can be saved to an SSD or SD card while recording high-speed bursts of hundreds or even thousands of images at a time.
Built for flexibility and ease of use, the camera can be controlled over Gigabit Ethernet with the company’s FasMotion software on a PC/Mac or via the built-in web interface on PC, Mac, tablet or smartphone. Using the Long-Record (LR) FasCorder Mode, the camera can be operated like a regular camcorder to record and pause as needed. Unlike traditional high-speed camera systems that only record for a few seconds and require careful triggering, the IL5’s LR option can record at high speed for many minutes at high resolutions, to many hours at reduced resolutions. On-board SSDs are available in sizes from 256GB to 2TB.