Instrumentation specialist Ashtead
Technology has added the i-
SPEED 3 camera to its rental fleet
of testing and monitoring
instruments. By offering this device
for hire, Ashtead is making the
technology available to a much wider
community. Initially designed for
industrial applications and ballistics,
the camera is now being employed in
a wide range of applications in which
the ability to capture high resolution
images and film for fast moving
images is important.

Explaining the popularity of the
new instrument, Ashtead’s Josh
Thomas says: “As industrial processes
become faster and increasingly
automated, it has become more
difficult to detect problems before
they become serious or result in plant
failure. However, the development of
high-speed cameras has made it
possible to visually slow down a
process so that faulty or inefficient
parts of the process can be identified
before they cause a problem.

The i-SPEED 3 is able to record at
up to 150,000 frames per second (up
to 1 second/picture in time lapse
mode) and 10,000 pictures per
second at a resolution of 1280 x 1024
pixels.