When asked about cameras for a sled or crash test facility, we often get asked recommendations for on-board, and off-board cameras. When given the answer ‘CrashCam Mini‘, the response is normally: CrashCam Mini looks ideal for on-board, but what about off-board? Well…. CrashCam Mini too. I was answering for both! The assumption is that the…
Cable free solution for outdoor imaging over large areas
A Case Study Making the most of wireless technology, let’s go totally cable-free – for power, control, download, video streaming and trigger, in addition to frame sync. Of course, wireless power is nothing new (we have battery powered cameras) but this configuration allows battery use for much longer periods of time. Hot swapping capability is…
Wireless frame synchronisation
Frame sync’ing cameras together is one of the main benefits of using digital high speed cameras rather than analogue. The idea of frame locked cameras was unheard of in the days of cine cameras. Until very recently, frame sync’ing wirelessly has just been a pipe dream. Most digital high speed cameras have cables for sync’ing,…
Frame Synchronisation
High speed cameras are often synchonised, (aka genlocked, framelocked) together. All but the most basic cameras include the ability to input or output a sync signal for this purpose. Creating movies with frames captured at exactly the same instant has many uses, including: Accurate motion analysis of an event with cameras at multiple viewing positions…