On Oct 22, 2009, at 11:43 AM, chris clepper wrote:

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:31 AM, cyrille henry <ch@chnry.net> wrote:
well, this was on osX, so it was not on my computer.
i'm using only linux...
but, quicktime add few sec of latency, so it was not usable in RT.
we used it only for none realtime stuf + a DV cam for real time.


You might find that to be the case with most high speed cameras.  Above a certain rate they are intended for slow motion playback later and not real time use.  Cameras that record hundreds or even thousands of frames per second use special RAM on the camera to store a few seconds and then download the frames using network or USB connections.


If its for tracking applications, any of the video tracking installations that I have been involved in have used Black&White security cameras with a visible light filter.  Those cameras are analog and about 150-300€.  Then you need to get a analog capture card though.  That could be a Canopus or anything that provides low noise and high framerate.

.hc

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