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

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 Youtuber 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 camera system teardown  

-A later video in which he does a teardown of the remote control and tests the imager itself:    • Ektapro EM/Hi-Spec high speed camera update  

-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 processor intro  

Finally, his main channel and all of his video are directly available from here: https://www.youtube.com/@tesla500/videos

The source of the crash tested footage is available here from CrashNet1 -    • Kodak Ektapro Hi-Spec processor intro  

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. - https://www.electricstuff.co.uk/ektap...

The primary source of the Artemis I lunch footage is NASA, however can be found from various sources on Youtube, including NASA themselves. There is a LOT of footage.

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