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Would this be a good dashcam?
Petapixel’s definition of “affordable” and mine are VERY different! Christ above!!
It is affordable per say if you’re in that market (I am so I know it well.) A phantom high speed camera that can do 30,000 FPS, which is one of your only other options, can run $80-200K. These aren’t cameras that the average person gets to just shoot a few slow mo clips and have fun. They’re for research, filmmakers, and YouTubers who film explosions and other super fast stuff.
We got the chronos 2.1 at work to develop a machine that sorts 15000 grain per second. For the price ($7000) it was absolutely fantastic and a crucial tool for us. I’ve borrowed it for some projects back home and you can get really nice footage with it.
I definitely wouldn’t mind this though
Got any nice pics to share uncompressed? Guessing they’re on the order of a GB?
I’m not shoting anything very interesting and I haven’t used it in over a year so I don’t have any uncompressed stuff easily available. But please enjoy the following samples.
Each year individual frame isn’t that big. It’s only a 1080p image. It’s just that when you capture 15,000 a second it adds up fast.
Not the person you are responding too but I’ll try to find some of my Chronos 2.1 footage to share in the later if you want. And yeah the data rates are not fun, had to upgrade my NAS a lot quicker once I got the camera
I would, but maybe you want to have like 25 likes to make sure more people than I are interested. Wouldn’t want you to spend time if it’s only me and a couple other peeps.
Some day, this tech will be affordable for everyone. But, for now, it’s still out of most people’s price range other than professionals.
I just don’t see many hobbyist use cases for 20,000+ fps. I guess billionaires can video a bumblebee’s wings if they’re bored.
There is plenty, your example included.
“The Chronos 4K12 is available to preorder now, and the first batch of cameras will ship in February 2024. Prices start at $14,495 for the 64GB model and $15,995 for the 128GB version.
The quicker Chronos Q12 is also available to order now, with shipping expected to commence in March. The 64GB version costs $19,995, while the 128GB model is $21,995.”
Ok if I win the lottery I’ll consider it.
Or maybe you just aren’t the target demo?
Interesting, was debating on selling my Chronos 2.1 for a free fly ember after some test shoots with it but it starts to get costly and makes me wondering if the rentals will justify it. Now that this is out would be curious to test this out. Not a lot of sample footage I saw on their announcement last night but will have to check this article out later and see if they have good sample clips.
Big thing they need to improve on from the 2.1 was their highlight rolloff. The ember felt improved on that and their dynamic range but both did have some banding noise issues. Still when your other option is a phantom that has an extra zero in the price tag these do feel affordable.
I was really confused until I realized this isn’t the Airsoft page.
We can only see up to 60fps so I don’t understand the need for more
I just bought one of these! 20k seemed reasonable! I came in here to excitedly type this while parking in down town San Fran, leaving it on my front seat.
/what was that breaking glass noise?
Annnnnnd the iPhone will probably do this in a couple of years…
Does that mean its internal storage fills up in less than 2 minutes?
Damn.
And you’re going to need like 100gb ethernet to keep it continuously going?
You don’t film two minutes of realtime with a high speed camera. It would take years to play back.
You record on a loop (constantly erasing a few seconds of realtime) on the internal RAM, and when you trigger the camera, you save a little bit of footage before and after the event. This can still be hours of footage when played back at 30 fps. You only need an SSD or regular old ethernet to download the saved footage.
The 2.1 works in a similar way… I have the 2.1 and it has 16GB, so it records in a loop and captures the last 5 seconds of footage, and you press a trigger to stop it. Then it has a external SSD that is plugged into it and you save the clip onto there. It’s just a different type of system because you’re right, at such high frame rates and resolution it uses up a ton of storage space super quick. The FreeFly cameras have an internal 2TB SSD which I like better. But with high speed cameras you’re usually filming stuff that happens super quickly, so the 5 second rule isn’t too much of an issue. Some phantom cameras can only do like 2 seconds.
Are you kidding me I LITERALLY JUST BOUGHT A 2.1!!! God damnit now I’m gonna be broke because I’ve got to pick this one up…
Why is affordable in quotes?
For what you’re getting here this is incredibly affordable. An Epic Red camera (not the base model Komodo) starts at $18,000. And that’s a normal cinema camera.
Prices start at $14,495 for the 64GB model and $15,995 for the 128GB version.
This make apple’s ssd pricing look reasonable in comparison.
If you already have $15,000, what’s another 1,000 just to double the ram? Lol
That’s ram, SSDs aren’t fast enough to take in that much data.
there is actually a different ‘budget’ high speed camera that writes directly to an ssd specifically for speed reasons. i don’t think it compares to the chronos cameras in terms of raw performance but it’s still pretty cool.
the chronos cameras are such an awesome example of the dedication of one dude and then a small team afterwards.
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
YOu have no clue what a professional camera is then. This is laughably affordable.