Lensing for Digital High-Speed Cameras

Vision Research’s Phantom line of digital high-speed cameras support a variety of applications leveraging a broad range of lens mounts and lens types.

Considerations when choosing a mount and lens system are sensor size, optical coverage, and lens speed. Lens speed is important in ultra high-speed acquisition. The intensity of light at a desired focal length becomes critical as frame rate requirements increase. This is especially true with light challenged environments when large aperture settings are necessary.

Lenses are composed of many different optical components with a variety of surfaces for light transmission from the subject to the imager. The quality and price of a lensing system depends upon design, precision of manufacture, quality of the glass, and the surface treatments used.

Wide angle lenses cover a larger view of angle; allowing the camera to capture more action within a single frame with some optical distortion. Fixed high-speed focal length lenses are used to achieve the highest image quality. Macro lenses can provide close-up image capability with high image quality with the ability to fill the image area when viewing small objects close-up.

Ultra high speed cameras, when coupled with specialty lenses that include long distance lenses and microscopes, can be used for viewing and recording high-speed microscopic events.  Borescopes either rigid or flexible with channeled lighting allow for image captures in space restricted environments.

Phantom cameras are used in a variety of applications to capture the unseen. They are compatible with all standard and specialized lensing systems.

Lens mounts available with Phantom Cameras: Nikon Manual/G Style, Canon EOS, C-mount, Hi-G C-mount, L-mount, Jonel, Mamiya, PL, and Super PL.

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