High-speed and DV video

Overview: Digital video

FireWire (IEEE-1394): Video PAL/NTSC

All consumer video cameras (SONY, Panasonic, Canon etc.) belong to this group. Cameras are cheap (starting with less than US$1000).
A new format has been created by Canon, Sony and other companies: HDV format
A few products are already available (~US$ 4000)
JVC brings portable HD to DV Expo
Digital HD camcorder JY-HD10U

FireWire (IEEE-1394): other cameras

Often cameras have a better resolution (e.g. 1014x768 pixels) than "video" cameras.
Most of them are available for only 30 Hertz or even less (US$ 500-1500)
www.1394imaging.com
There are cameras from Basler which support 100 Hertz and can still be saved to hard disk for long capture durations.
www.baslerweb.com

Other industry standard interfaces

For example "camera link". These cameras have high resolution and high frequencies (e.g. 1024x1024 pixels, 1000 Hz).
They use memory on the frame grabber or system RAM to save their images. Usually capturing time is limited to a few seconds.
www.baslerweb.com
Other cameras have memory onboard and use standard interfaces to transfer the images after the actual capturing process.
www.vdsvossk.de

Proprietary systems/interfaces

Cameras with several thousand frames per second
www.nacinc.com
www.redlake.com
www.photron.com
Capture time limitations are the same as with (3).

In the future HDV will be a good choice where high resolution is needed.
For many biomechanical tests a better resolution in time is necessary. We are very comfortable with the Basler A600 series. Please note that these cameras do not comply to the video standard so special capture software has to be used.

FireWire IEEE-1394B

FireWire is developing, too.
The new "1394B" standard doubles the data rate (800 Mbit/s). This band width can be used for higher pixel resolution (like HDV) or time resolution (like the Basler 600 series).