Casio Coming out with Digital Camera

[shocksyde]

Engadget Link

That's some crazy ish right there!

That's GOTTA be using low-quality JPEG shooting, right? Is there even a memory card out there fast enough to handle 60fps RAW?

 

[punchkin]

Originally posted by: shocksyde
Engadget Link

That's some crazy ish right there!

That's GOTTA be using low-quality JPEG shooting, right? Is there even a memory card out there fast enough to handle 60fps RAW?

Minor correction-- it's not an SLR, is it?

 

[shocksyde]

Originally posted by: punchkin

Originally posted by: shocksyde
Engadget Link

That's some crazy ish right there!

That's GOTTA be using low-quality JPEG shooting, right? Is there even a memory card out there fast enough to handle 60fps RAW?

Minor correction-- it's not an SLR, is it?

Good call. Correcting in title.

 

[dakels]

wow... that's incredible. I have a hard time keeping up with the physics of these new digital cameras. They deliver what was impossible to impossibly expensive to the average consumer for relatively cheap.

Still, I don't understand how this little camera can do 1200fps without absurdly powerful lighting. I understand CCD's can be extremely powerful and light sensitive but 1200 fps? And yea... how much data can be per frame at 1200fps under current flash write speeds? Oh I just read elsewhere that the 1200fps mode is at 336x96 resolution... lol Pretty tiny.

 

[shocksyde]

Originally posted by: dakels
wow... that's incredible. I have a hard time keeping up with the physics of these new digital cameras. They deliver what was impossible to impossibly expensive to the average consumer for relatively cheap.

Still, I don't understand how this little camera can do 1200fps without absurdly powerful lighting. I understand CCD's can be extremely powerful and light sensitive but 1200 fps? And yea... how much data can be per frame at 1200fps under current flash write speeds? Oh I just read elsewhere that the 1200fps mode is at 336x96 resolution... lol Pretty tiny.

I wonder if you can shoot at like 600fps and get twice the resolution?

 

[ElFenix]

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[punchkin]

Originally posted by: dakels
wow... that's incredible. I have a hard time keeping up with the physics of these new digital cameras. They deliver what was impossible to impossibly expensive to the average consumer for relatively cheap.

Still, I don't understand how this little camera can do 1200fps without absurdly powerful lighting. I understand CCD's can be extremely powerful and light sensitive but 1200 fps? And yea... how much data can be per frame at 1200fps under current flash write speeds? Oh I just read elsewhere that the 1200fps mode is at 336x96 resolution... lol Pretty tiny.

You're right that it would be light-challenged at some point, but as you also imply, any noise issue would be pretty much gone by that teensy resolution... In any event you wouldn't need an insane amount of light for that frame rate-- 1/8000s is no problem for even cheap DSLRs these days, and you can easily reach this rate in average sunlight, especially with a fairly fast lens and/or a slight ISO boost. Since this camera wouldn't be moving a shutter back and forth, I don't see why (at least nearly) the full time period couldn't be devoted to gathering light.

 

[shocksyde]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
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D'oh!

 

[dakels]

according to elfenix's linked article, the resolution goes up as the fps goes down which makes sense.
I assume the tiny 336x96 is based on the write speed limitation. Not sure though as if my math is correct, but that rate seems to be around 5MB/s which is not that fast.

I'm actually interested in this camera as the high speed can be a good teaching tool for tennis. Only thing is this probably need a ton of light for those optics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CNiWdu4kLw&NR=1

 

[Jawo]

I think this is more of a gadget camera. Its really cool in theory but what are you going to do with 1200 rectangular nearly identical 32,256 pixel images? Not to mention the unusual size, what are you going to do with such small pictures?

In real size, 336x96 is about the size of the box below:
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ugh...lame FuseTalk deletes extra spaces

 

[Fardringle]

I think it could be moderately interesting as a cheap replacement for a high speed video camera at 1200 FPS (for amateur scientific testing, for example) but really not very useful as a "photo" camera.

 

[agr8man]

is it an SLR??

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: agr8man
is it an SLR??

Nope.