Kodak EktaPro EM 1000 - Kodak's "Affordable" High-Speed Camera from the 90's

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High-speed cameras are still several thousand dollars. Thankfully that's pennies compared to the cost of the first solid-state imagers that emerged on the market at the end of the 80's and starting into the 90's. The EktaPro EM 1000 came in at around $100000 (varying by configuration) and provided 1.2 seconds of record time at 1000fps. Today they can be found for a few hundred if you are lucky. Lets take a look at my base model machine and then I will show you some of the footage I've taken with this unit so far.
Through this video I repeatedly mention fellow KZfaqr and engineer Tesla500 for inspiring me years ago to investigate buying one of these imagers. Since he has already gone through his already, look below for more videos from him:
-His teardown of the image processor and the imager head: • Ektapro EM High-speed ...
-A later video in which he does a teardown of the remote control and tests the imager itself: • Ektapro EM/Hi-Spec hig...
-He alludes to a more higher-end imaging processor at one point called the Hi-Spec. Same design but a new durable rackmount enclosure. You can watch his video on that here: • Kodak Ektapro Hi-Spec ...
Finally, his main channel and all of his video are directly available from here: www.youtube.com/@tesla500/videos
The source of the crash tested footage is available here from CrashNet1 - • Kodak Ektapro Hi-Spec ...
For more information on the Ektapro TR, which was the earlier tape-based system, Mikes Electric Stuff talks about it...and his efforts to reinvent the wheel in an attempt to make everything work again. - www.electricstuff.co.uk/ektap...
The primary source of the Artemis I lunch footage is NASA, however can be found from various sources on KZfaq, including NASA themselves. There is a LOT of footage.
Remember to follow me on "X" at @CelGenStudios to keep up to date on what I am doing and what might be happening in the next video.

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@_marlene 4 ай бұрын

wait- you're a small channel? I wasnt watching one of those 2 million sub technical channels that slipped my notice? I really did have that surprise. Cool video!

@CelGenStudios 4 ай бұрын

I try and make interesting and really informative videos regularly but at this point there's a LOT of competition. I'm just happy reading the comments. :)

@mfbfreak 5 ай бұрын

Pretty artistic slo mo shots, and amazing to have such an expensive piece of kit in your hands. Something that you can now get for so much less.

@stellated 5 ай бұрын

33:41 oh my gosh so beautiful!! Thank you for another banger of a video. This thing definitely has an aesthetic. There's something so majestic about early 90s Kodak digital equipment, I'm drawn to it, and this is no exception.

@mikesum32 4 ай бұрын

This is the best.

@computeraidedworld1148 5 ай бұрын

That slow motion section was so alien. Very cool video.

@blackmask916 4 ай бұрын

Great music choice on that montage!

@karlramberg 5 ай бұрын

Nice high speed shots 🙂

@interferingpanda 5 ай бұрын

keep it up bro. love your work

@philip.t 4 ай бұрын

What an incredibly welmade, informative video. Thank you so much

@CelGenStudios 4 ай бұрын

No problem!

@posysajrazdwatrzy 4 ай бұрын

I love the plot twist about the Chronos creator at the end.

@CelGenStudios 4 ай бұрын

When I came back to his channel years later and made that connection when looking over his newer videos the moment it all clicked was pretty crazy.

@lutello3012 5 ай бұрын

I would like to know more about how that tape works. Linier video tape needs to run ata speeds like that just to record 30fps. Maybe it uses low resolution and splits it into 16 tracks or something.

@CelGenStudios 5 ай бұрын

MikesElectricStuff has a page on his website where he discusses the tape transport, the stacked head and the amplifier. www.electricstuff.co.uk/ektapro.html

@stevec00ps 4 ай бұрын

The NASA high speed photography is on film due to the massive dynamic range. Digital cameras get swamped by the massively bright fire so details get lost in the image.

@michaelbailey4164 4 ай бұрын

Awesome. And another thing our pocket miracle machines can do so easy.

@cassinihuygens 5 ай бұрын

According to Crunchbase, Spin Physics was a magnetic tape producer that was acquired in 1972 by Kodak.

@CelGenStudios 4 ай бұрын

Hah! I had a feeling that was the case.

@kuglepen64 4 ай бұрын

Awesome video.

@douro20 5 ай бұрын

Mike Harrison (mikeselectricstuff) took the challenge of building a framebuffer system for his tape-based model for his first FPGA project. I think he managed 2000 fps out of his.

@CelGenStudios 5 ай бұрын

The imaging heads are able to do up to 12000fps, albeit with a cropped image. No idea if that was a technical limitation of the imaging head or the processor.

@seancostello150 5 ай бұрын

MIL-CON military connector cable. Easily (and expensively) made custom by the right fab lab.

@altebander2767 5 ай бұрын

I guess they had a few pins left on the connector and wondered how they could put it to use. A headset connector is something many professional standard TV cameras had back then, so I guess it makes sense to just include it there.

@altebander2767 5 ай бұрын

It might be that the sensor head is mostly sensitive to IR illumination. Modern lighting equipment has very little IR.

@jwp8212 4 ай бұрын

I do love your footage compilation, what's the name of the song that's so soothing?

@CelGenStudios 4 ай бұрын

It's one of a group of songs from a small run laserdisc and isn't titled with a name or artist, so I'm running a big risk here for science by dubbing it into this video to see if ContentID can tell me who it is and what it's called. It was itself used in a time lapse segment called "Time Capsule" (for future folks, if the audio in that segment is muted, I found out who the artist was....)

@jwp8212 4 ай бұрын

@@CelGenStudios Woah so interesting and very obscure

@Casualfulltime 4 ай бұрын

That bookshelf looks like an accident waiting to happen 🤣

@CelGenStudios 4 ай бұрын

Surprisingly I've already gone back and fixed it once already. :P

@ReaperRestorations 4 ай бұрын

speaking of Eagles, i could use your help with mine!

@CelGenStudios 4 ай бұрын

The EaglesDen forum is one of the last place online to get help for those cars. If you ask for assistance there odds are I'll see it. ;)

@DandyDon1 4 ай бұрын

The outdoor image looked like something out of the Twilight Zone.... ;)

@CelGenStudios 4 ай бұрын

Working outside is the only way I'm able to get fairly sharp recordings. Even with halogen or film lights I have the open the iris almost completely which results in a VERY narrow focus point.

@DandyDon1 4 ай бұрын

@@CelGenStudios The same thing can be said about our own eye sight. Good lighting is key to being able to see clearly. :)

@paulushdk 4 ай бұрын

this video gives me TechnologyConnections vibes

@SnepperStepTV 5 ай бұрын

Is there a color model? I'm thinking about picking one up for sfx work- models and explosions and that sort of thing. But i'll need color.

@mfbfreak 5 ай бұрын

Do you realize this is a 30 year old device with a resolution smaller than the typical video thumbnail? It's a historic piece of tech, very cool, but i wouldn't recommend actually trying to source one of these for 'serious' work regardless of it having color or not. A modern GoPro already does 240fps, in color of course. Some cellphones claim to be able to shoot at 960fps.

@mikeselectricstuff 5 ай бұрын

No, there were some later models with colour, but bear in mind you're talking qvga level resolution

@akai8167 5 ай бұрын

get a sony fs700 or rx100 mkiv instead if cost is a consideration. up to 1000fps on em

@CelGenStudios 5 ай бұрын

As others have pointed out, I strongly advise against using a camera this old, especially now that a used Chronos can sometimes be found below $2000. If you still want one, there's an EktaPro 1000HRC that's been on ebay for years now that will do color (at a very low resolution), but it too is $2000.

@pauldickhoff3594 5 ай бұрын

Mine came with 2 strobelights that were triggered by the imager to provide illumination. Also: This was also made with the EktaPro. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pNKblsKap7CUc30.html