Digital high speed cameras

[MIPS]

Here is an example of video out of both imagers.
Now the big thing with both is that their preferred methods of unloading footage is quite obsolete these days, if not unsuitably slow. The EM-1000/1200 has options for IEEE-488/GPIB and composite video with direct VCR control. The SR-1000 gives you a SCSI interface to download images, plus composite video.
Because the image sensor resolution so amazingly small compared to the bandwidth of composite video it makes more sense today to download using that. For this reason I built a USB powered box that consists of three things:

1-A $5 Aliexpress Composite to HDMI converter and 1920x1080 upscaler
2-A $15 HDMI to USB capture dongle
3-Hot glue
The Capture dongle is driverless and appears in your video capture and editing program of choice, such as OBS.




The result is actually really good considering how low the initial resolution is. I had bigger issues with getting the cameras focused but I can assure you that is a problem with the glass and not representative of the best these can do.

First up is the EM-1000. The footage is of the mechanical locking mechanism in an older slot machine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv2XjJ0qO_U



For the SR-1000 we have footage of a bird taking flight from the top of a fence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2YpqYVZUDw

Notice that while the SR-1000 is the newer system the capture window is considerably smaller.