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Preface

Evidently many high-speed camera systems use OEM materials of a couple of manufacturers. That's valid for film and CCD/CMOS systems. Especially in industrial digital high-speed camera systems the former PB-MV13 sensor of Photobit, owned by Micron and recently by Aptina as MT9M413C36STC/M (and its successors), is a very common sight. It is easy to identify its specification behind the system descriptions. Also one can find the Fillfactory/Cypress Lupa 1300 and its successors (... -2). Only a few companies are able to develop their own cameras/sensors.
By the way: Often the companies offer a more or less broad mixture of systems and equipment - not only either film or sensor cameras.

Here only an incomplete, non-exhausting and not representative list. Just one selection criterion has been whether some sample sequences or photos are shown. There is no validation of corresponding appliances related with, not in the least.) Of course, one will find more, if one searches with "high-speed photography", "high-speed camera" or comparable terms in the Internet.
But here the present highlight: the Trillion Fps Camera, MIT.

High-speed photography

Basics

Do-it-yourself crash: with 50 km/h (ca. 31 mph) against the wall

• Sensor designer, explanation of CMOS pixel cells; examples: rolling shutter effects and others
  Awaiba; Madeira, Portugal, Erlangen, Germany

• Sensor development, especially for high-speed cameras; examples: historical and present
  VIS-NIR Imaging, CSEM; Zurich, Switzerland

• Edgerton Center at the MIT; examples: bursting balloon and many more; links to other sources
  Edgerton Center; Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

• Explanations, tips and numerous examples (also other special shots)
  FOTOOPA; Netherlands

• High-speed imaging; background information, descriptions of the experimental environments, sources, ... examples: bursting balloon and several more
  HIVIZ by Loren Winters and students and
  digital high-speed imaging of water drops (»splashes«) and other things often animated
  High-Speed Imaging, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham, North Carolina, USA

• High-speed imaging and background information, blog; numerous examples
  DIYPhotography.net, Photography and Studio Lighting by Udi Tirosh

• High-speed imaging and background information; photos especially of insects in flight
  high-speed-nature.de from Jürgen Schmidt

• High-speed imaging and background information, blog
  Lucidmovement by Neil Nafus and others

• Some example photos and a lot of info; also high-speed film by Andrew Davidhazy:
  Rochester Institute for Technology: high-speed photography
  streak camera
  (digital) stroboscopy

• High-speed imaging and background information; numerous examples
  TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

• High-speed imaging and technique info; numerous examples
  Fraunhofer für Institut Integrierte Schaltungen, Erlangen, Germany

Manufacturers and service providers

• Digital high-speed photos, sequence and single shot cameras, manufacturer and distributor; examples: guns, pistols, revolvers, ... (partly animated)
  Kurzzeit.com, Werner Mehl, Diebach/Bellershausen, Germany

• Free photos (gallery) with short time and ultra short time exposure and descriptions of the experimental environments
  Phototrap, Lakeside, California, USA

High-speed film and video

Basics

CAM 2000 CMOS APS sensor
with over 100 000 frames/sec

• A intensive course in high-speed imaging
  Motion Engineering Company (MEC), Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

• A summary in Wikipedia
  High-speed photography

• An illustrated review of high-speed camera systems; various examples (in German)
  Fachhochschule (Engl.: Polytechnic) Friedberg, Friedberg, Germany

• Two German treatises on traditional film based
  high-speed cameras, University Darmstadt, Germany

• High Speed Camera Site
  http://sites.google.com/site/highspeedcamerasite/Home

Users

• Digital high-speed cameras; example: archery
  Beiter, Werner, Technische Kunststoffteile (Engl.: technical plastic parts), Dauchingen, Germany

• Digital high-speed imaging by »Dr. Dave«; numerous examples
  Colorado State University, Fort Collin, Colorado, USA

• Digital high-speed imaging for high voltage and discharge processes; example: plasma discharge
  Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

• Digital high-speed imaging just for fun
  Mike's Electric Stuff, (Mike Harrison), Great Britain, but in pro style

• Digital high-speed imaging for crash tests and numerous others
  SRI International (Poulter Laboratory), ex Stanford Research Institute, California, USA

• Video clips of archery
  Texas State Archery Association, Texas, USA

Service providers

• Industrial applications and crash tests; examples: crash tests
  Autoliv, Campbellfield, Australia

• Industrial and military applications; numerous examples
  Big Vision Imaging, Carmel, Indiana, USA

• Industrial and other applications; numerous examples
  DEL Imaging Systems, Cheshire, Connecticut, USA

• Shooting for scientific, industrial and advertising imaging; Cinematography, production of commercials (advertising movies), image processing (»machine vision«), long time recording
  GS Vitek and Slomotec, Bad Soden-Salmünster, Germany

• Digital ultra high-speed imaging for science, defense and others; numerous examples
  Itronx Imaging Technologies, Westlake Village, California, USA

• Industrial applications and crash tests; examples
  MAK Bildtechnik, Wolfsburg, Germany

• Industrial engineering; examples
  McSwain Engineering, Pensacola, Florida, USA

• Full offer for the advertising, motion picture and TV business; production of commercials (advertising movies), presentations and documentations; showreel
  Rowe Productions, Graz, Austria

• Shooting for scientific, industrial and advertising imaging; numerous high quality examples
  Science-Media, Andechs, Germany

• Digital high-speed imaging for promotion films and scientific documentation works
  ScienceDocu, Vettweiss, Germany

• High performance full service studio for the advertising, motion picture and TV business; numerous examples: high-speed cinematography, production of commercials (advertising movies)
  Slomoexpress, Cinetech Production Group, Los Angeles - Hong Kong - Shanghai

• Digital high-speed cameras for imaging services for industrial applications; numerous examples
  Trikon Solutions, Neuhausen, Switzerland

• Digital high-speed cameras for imaging services for industrial applications
  viZaar, Albstadt, Germany

• Shooting for scientific, industrial and advertising imaging; numerous high quality examples, making-of
  Weisscam (HS-1, HS-2), Munich, Germany

Manufacturers (often service providers, too)

Four decades high-speed cameras

High-speed film cameras

• Ultra high-speed cameras (singleshot, rotating mirror); numerous examples: bullet through a pane, explosions
  Cordin, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

• Ultra high-speed cameras (drum camera); examples
  High-Speed Photo-Systeme, Wedel, Germany

• Digital and film based high-speed imaging; examples
  Visual Instrumentation Corporation (VIC), Lancaster, California, USA

CCD and CMOS high-speed cameras

• Industrial digital high-speed cameras; examples
  AOS, Baden-Dättwil, Switzerland

• 3D motion tracking/analysis with 240 frames/sec; examples
  Ariel Dynamics, Trabuco Canyon, California, USA

• Industrial digital high-speed cameras; examples
  Canadian Photonics Lab Inc, Minnedosa, Manitoba, Canada

• Distribution of simple high-speed cameras, frame grabbers and control software; examples
  Cosyco, Germering, Germany

• Tesin, manufacturer of a »real time« high-speed cameras with stroboscope feature; examples
  Cyclocam, Sint-Denis-Westrem, Belgium

• Better known as high-quality sensor manufacturer; but also offer complete cameras
  Teledyne Dalsa, Waterloo, Canada

• Digital (also ultra-) high-speed cameras (inclusive former Hadland Photonics line); numerous examples
  DRS Data & Imaging Systems Inc, Oakland, New Jersey, USA

• Portable, battery operated digital high-speed camera; selection guide
  Fastec Imaging Corporation, San Diego, California, USA

• Digital high-speed cameras; numerous examples
  Fast Vision, Nashua, New Hampshire, USA

• Digital infrared high-speed cameras
  Flir Systems, Frankfurt, Germany

• Digital ultra fast streak cameras
  Hamamatsu Photonics, Hamamatsu City, Japan

• HDTV high-speed camera systems; numerous examples
  I-MOVIX, Mons, Belgium

• Digital infrared normal and high-speed cameras and equipment
  IRcam, Erlangen, Germany

• Industrial digital high-speed camera; examples (refer to link Applications)
  JC Labs, La Honda, California, USA

• Special lenses and intensifiers for/with high-speed cameras
  Lambert Instruments, Roden, The Netherlands

• Ultra high-speed camera systems; examples: ignition in a motor, shooting with an airgun at a match under /products/cameras
  LaVision, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA and Göttingen, Germany

• Special lenses and High Dynamic Range sensors
  Lensation, Karlsruhe, Germany

• Ultra high-speed cameras and IR distributor
  Lot-Oriel, Darmstadt, Germany

• Industrial digital high-speed camera systems and image processing systems; examples: bulb, glass of water
  Mikrotron, Eching, Germany

• Ultra high-speed CCD camera and HDTV broadcast high-speed camera; examples
  NHK Television (Japan Broadcasting Corporation), Tokyo, Japan

• Industrial digital high-speed cameras; examples
  Optronis, Kehl, Germany

• Industrial digital high-speed cameras; examples
  Photonfocus AG, Lachen, Switzerland

• Industrial portable digital high-speed camera with analogue input channels; examples
  Plexlogger (plextor.jp) from Shinano Kenshi, Ueda City, Japan

• Just as an example for fast cameras out of the image processing »machine vision« sector: the GC series with up to 200 frames/sec at VGA resolution of 640 x 480 pixels)
  Allied Vision Technologies / Prosilica, Stadtroda, Germany, Burnaby, Canada

• Example for a fast camera with integrated image processing for measurement applications:
  Redline, Baesweiler, Germany

• Digital ultra high-speed camera (Fast Framing Camera)
  Shimadzu Corporation, Kyoto, Japan

• Industrial digital high-speed cameras; examples
  Silicon Imaging, Troy, New York and Costa Mesa, California, USA

• Industrial digital (high-speed) cameras; numerous examples
  SVSi, Madison, Alabama, USA

• Digital ultra high-speed cameras; numerous examples
  Specialised Imaging, Hertfordshire, UK;
  German distributor with illustrated home page Berkenberg (Bowas), Munich, Germany

• Industrial digital (high-speed) cameras
  SVS-Vistek, Seefeld, Germany

• Digital infrared normal and high-speed cameras and equipment
  Thermosensorik, Erlangen, Germany

• Industrial digital high-speed cameras; examples
  VDS-Vosskühler (Allied Vision Technologies), Osnabrück, Germany

The big names for professional high-end applications

• Digital and film based high-speed cameras (HYCAM, MotionXtra, Motion Pro X, ...); examples
  IDT/Redlake, Tallahassee, Florida, USA (former Roper, former Kodak MASD line)

• Digital and tape based high-speed cameras (MEMRECAM, HotShot, ...); examples
  NAC Image Technologies, Tokyo, Japan

• Scientific and industrial digital high-speed cameras; examples
  PCO, Kelheim, Germany

• Digital high-speed cameras; long time recording; accessories, especially for airborne and military applications
  Photo-Sonics, Burbank, California, USA

• Digital high-speed cameras (FASTCAM, Ultima APX, ...); examples
  Photron, San Diego, California, USA
  A lot of shots mat by a distributor in Reutlingen, Germany hs-movies.de

• Industrial digital high-speed cameras (i-SPEED)
  Olympus Industrial, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, UK

• Digital high-speed cameras (Phantom V and Miro series, ...); examples
  Vision Research, Wayne, New Jersey, USA

• Digital and film based high-speed cameras, especially for crash tests (Stalex, SpeedCam Visario, Mini-/MacroVis, ...); examples
  Weinberger, Erlangen, Germany, Dietikon, Switzerland; now Weinberger-Service, Nuremberg, Germany

Software for control and motion analysis of/with high-speed cameras

Trajectory evaluation: translation, rotation,
velocity, acceleration and stick-figure animation

• Mikromak WINanalyze, Berlin, Germany; especially analysis

• Vannier Auto-/MotionTrack, Antony, France; especially analysis

• Artho/Weinberger Visart at HS Vision, Karlsruhe, German; especially control

• Falkner Falcon MovXact, Munich, Germany; control or analysis

• Signum Bildtechnik, Munich, Germany; especially analysis

• HuDe, Erkelenz, Germany; control or analysis

• SIMI°Motion, Unterschleißheim, Germany; especially analysis

• Ingenieurbüro Dr. Gerhard, Munich, Germany; especially analysis

• Contemplas TEMPLO, Kempten, German; especially analysis

Consumer high-speed cameras

• Casio EXILIM Highspeed, e.g. EX-F1, EX-FH20, EX-FS10 and EX-FC100

• JVC EVERIO GZ X900, GC-PX10

• Samsung SC-HMX20C

• Sanyo Xacti HD2000, HD1010 and FH1

• Sony »smooth slow recording«, e.g. HDR-UX3E and HDR-UX7E and professional camcorders as well