Color 1280×1024 High Speed Video Camera – Up to 17,791 Frames/Sec. – Powerful – Easy to Use – Price Starting Under $5K!
Are you frustrated that access to professional grade, high speed video cameras is limited to big budget shows on the Discovery channel? Do you dream of having the frame rate and resolution of a truly professional camera sitting on your tripod? We’ve created an easy-to-use system that rivals the quality of high-priced cameras at a fraction of the cost.
edgertronic is disrupting the high speed video camera market.
We started this project for one simple reason: There are no low-cost high speed video cameras that offer the video quality that professional photographers demand. Since Mike first modified a low-cost strobe flash in 1975, he’s been pursuing his passion for low-cost, high speed photography. He’s been frustrated by ridiculously expensive rentals (thousands of dollars per day) of medium quality, high speed cameras that were also too bulky and complex to use. In 2011, We set out to solve these problems, and now we’re ready to show it to the world.
A high speed camera that belongs in your bag.
We’ve been hard at work for almost 2 years, and with your help, we’re ready to take the edgertronic into full-fledged production. By supporting this effort, you’ll be the first to get your hands on an amazing high speed video camera AND help usher in a new generation of high speed photography – a generation where your creative output is no longer limited by price or systems designed for industrial application.
The edgertronic will change the face of high speed photography.
We’ve gone through exhaustive lengths to design a new type of high speed camera:
- Engineered from the ground up to produce high quality, high speed video
- Intuitive and simple to use software so you can spend less time setting up the camera and more time shooting
- Uses standard video codecs, and video is stored on a local SD card so it can easily be imported into the video editing suite of your choice
- Standard Nikon F mount allows use of fast primes, zooms, and other lenses
Read on for a more detailed description of why this camera is revolutionary and how you’ll help our efforts if you support this project.
How does the edgertronic work?
The edgertronic contains a specialized CMOS image sensor, ultra high speed electronics, memory, and image processing electronics in a compact form factor.
The camera runs a web server and connects to a computer/laptop or to a LAN over Ethernet. The user directs a standard web browser to the camera’s IP address and controls the camera via a user interface (UI) appearing on the web browser. The camera’s UI allows the user to set exposure, frame rate, preview composition, adjust focus, and finally trigger the camera to take a high speed video.
While running, the edgertronic is constantly capturing frames of high speed video into an internal buffer. Depending on frame size and frame rate, this buffer contains, at a minimum, the last 8 seconds of video. When a trigger occurs, video before and/or after the trigger is captured and compressed into H.264 video and saved to a removable SD card.
Continuous capture into a this large buffer allows the user to trigger the edgertronic even after an event has occurred. Unpredictable events, like a lightning bolt, can be captured with ease.
Once the video is saved, it can be downloaded to the computer, or replayed in the web browser. Alternately, the user can remove the SD card and download the videos to their computer or laptop.
User Interface:
High speed videography has unique challenges in how frame rate, shutter speed, aperture, and resolution settings interact. We completely rethought the control interface to reduce complexity while allowing full creative override. You can specify as many or as few of the settings as you want, and the camera will fill in the remaining ones. This allows you to optimally concentrate on your creative process.
Learn more about edgertronic here.