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Why does a high speed camera cost so much?

To answer this question, first thing you need to know is "what is a high speed camera?"

A high-speed camera is a device capable of capturing moving images with exposures of less than 1/1,000 second or frame rates in excess of 250 fps. In today, most of the professional high speed camera can capture over 1000 fps, 2000 fps or more!
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Understanding High Speed Cameras

Several important technical aspects include the frame rate, resolution, light sensitivity and analysis software.

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Frame Rate

how many video frames the high speed camera captures per each second of video. 1000 fps means the camera captured 1000 individual frames each and every single second of the recorded video. The higher the frame rate, the smoother and more detailed the video will be.
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Light Sensitivity

Light sensitivity impacts your ability to use a short exposure time so that you can effectively eliminate motion blur when capturing a very high-speed event. Light sensitivity impacts the quality of your video because without sufficient light sensitivity your images will be dark and you will not be able to analyze the event in clear detail.
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Resolution

Higher resolutions are important when the field of view of the camera is large, or when a very small spatial resolution is required because there are a lot of fine details in the high-speed event that need to be studied.
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Analysis Software

No one can take care or analyze high speed image data without professional analysis software.The Analysis software also allows you to precisely set the control parameters of the camera to successfully capture the high speed event.
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Sensor dev cost is over 1 million dollars

Sensor dev getting harder, we spent so much on it as we have to do it. Camera FPS getting higher and higher, depends on the better sensor, without the sensor we have today, we can't reach the high FPS to catch up your application needs.
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Use the most expensive high-end FPGAs and controllers

FPGA (Field-programmable gate array) use to capture, processed and store image data. As high speed camera have large size throughput every second, high-end FPGAs are necessary for it, and high-end FPGAs are expensive.
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PCB need to be multi-layer design

Designing a Multilayer PCB is not an easy job, as if there’s a error present in the model, you have to redo the manufacturing process. so expert & professional designers are required, most of the time multilayer PCBs are carried out by a team of professional designers.
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Multilayer PCB
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Engineers very expensive to do the work

Engineers working in High speed video camera area are much less then usual, they working on PCB which design on multi-layers, CMOS light sensors and more.
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Computer programmers very expensive

Software engineers have created modern efficient software applications, not only build-in camera but also running on PC. Allow user to control frame rate, exposure, trigger modes and more during the recording time, manage image compression, editing, correction, stabilization , data analysis and advanced object tracking capabilities after that. Software programmers never be cheap, but high speed camera software programmers are more expensive.
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Equipment in high speed camera manufacturer cost alot

High Speed Camera company carried lots expensive equipment to make sure all products are good before send to the marketing. They have full range of life cycle test equipment that will guarantee years and even decades of problem free reliability. Temperature test chambers, computerized vibration test rigs, and more are necessary for them.
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Low volume marketing

Low volume sales compare to mass produced consumer cameras means the cost for dev of each camera is big dollars.
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The Global High Speed Camera Marketing Forecast Period Post on 2019
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Trade Show

Trade shows are effective tools for booking new business, maintaining current relationships with clients and keeping your brand strong in your marketplace. What you do to promote your company or product before, during and after the show should all be coordinated to maximize your exposure and potential sales. But trade show cost the company too.
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Visit and Training

High speed camera are use on specific application, high speed camera manufacturer need to visit and train customer how to config and use the camera, not only the camera but also the software for it, travel and train cost a lots too.
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Warranty

As a high tech product, high speed camera always have a longer warranty, between two to five years.
All the above to consider about to be part of the price, not one of them but all of them.

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