High Speed Cameras for Non-Destructive Testing

In the “old” days when high speed cameras used film, there was a very definite period of time in which the event one wished to record had to occur. This was between the point at which the film had ramped up from a standing start to the desired frame rate, and before the film magazine (which held up to a thousand of feet of 16mm, 35mm or 70mm film) would run out.