Canadian film Krontech, wo successfully launched its low-cost high-speed Chronos High Speed Camera back in 2016 released a new 2.1 version that can now record in Full HD. The company that started out ten years ago as a one-man-band founded by engineer David Kronstein, has releases a new version of their compact, self contained high-speed camera: Chronos 2.1. According to their goal of making the world of high-speed imaging available to the masses they have delivered again. High speed? The Chronos 2.1 is a high-speed camera that is ready to shoot and fits in the palm of your hand. We are talking about real high-speed not overcranking a camera to 100 or 120 frames per second here. True high-speed of 1000 fps, that usually is ridiculously expensive to shoot. The new model shares a great deal of specs with it’s predecessor, but while the Chronos 1.4 had a maximum resolution of 1280×1024, the new Chronos 2.1 shoots in 1080p. With a world moving towards 4K delivery, the extra resolution is more than welcome. Chronos high speed camera – the facts Chronos cameras work with a “constant pixel throughput” principle. That means the flow of data from the sensor into the camera’s buffer storage is always a constant 2.1 Gigapixels per second. The user can balance resolution for speed: The Chronos 2.1-HD offers up 1,000fps at full resolution and 24,046fps at minimum resolution. Resolution is adjustable in 32×2 increments. Some example combinations of resolution and frame rate are shown in this...
Published By: CineD - Friday, 8 January, 2021