Firstsight Vision’s range of cameras for high speed applications has
grown with the addition of the CamRecord 1000 camera from Optronis.
Ideally suited for a wide variety of high speed industrial inspection
applications, the Camrecord 1000 CMOS camera provides colour images
at frame rates up to an impressive 1000 frames per second (fps) at
1280 x 1024 pixels, and higher frame-rates of up to 200,000 fps can
be achieved if windowing is used to sample a smaller number of pixels.
The CamRecord 1000 can be used as a flexible inspection tool within a
manufacturing environment to provide highly detailed information to
establish the source of faults on various production lines. The
camera is housed in a compact enclosure that is both rugged and dust-
proof, allowing it to be used in more demanding industrial
environments. Application areas include industrial vision
applications and science and military (process inspection) as well as
process and fault analysis.
Featuring an integrated video memory of up to 4 Gigabyte and using
the FireWire interface for easy interconnection, the CamRecord
1000 is easy to handle and provides the operator with a wide choice
of computer operating environments to view and store the camera’s
high-speed sequences. The camera features a global shutter with
exposure times down to 1µs with a better than 99.9% accuracy,
freezing even the fastest movements and eliminating the image
artifacts that are prevalent with other shutter technologies.
The CamRecord 1000 is supplied with a turn key software system
running under Windows that provides full control of the camera. It
allows display of images in real time for optical alignment or to
acquire sequences of images for later image analysis. Export of
sequences in industry standard movie formats allows the images to be
displayed within presentations and common multi-media players.