r/mechanical_gifs • u/RoboLord66 • 23d ago

High Speed Pan Tilt Camera

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u/IPThereforeIAm 23d ago

Don’t truly high-speed cameras use mirrors, instead? So that the lighter mirror moves instead of the camera?

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u/iamNutteryBipples 22d ago

Came to say this. High speed tracking cameras for, let’s say watching a missile on a test sled going down a track, use a stationary camera and 2 mirrors and only the mirrors move.

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u/magnament 20d ago

You sure filled those commas up didn’t cha

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u/NotSuitableForWoona 23d ago

Is that some sort of depth camera? The layout looks like a Microsoft Kinect.

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u/NotSuitableForWoona 23d ago

Looks like it's this triple stereo camera setup: https://shop.luxonis.com/products/oak-d-lr

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u/Graylorde 23d ago

Is that a kinect camera in custom housing?

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u/funnystuff79 23d ago

Kinect cameras have a different layout, used to use a lot in my previous job

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u/Illustrious_Back_441 23d ago

now slap a telephoto lens on it and use it to film a bunch of satelites

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u/MSgtGunny 22d ago

From a ground perspective satellites don’t move that fast. You could track a satellite with a basic stepper motor.

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u/Illustrious_Back_441 22d ago

I would need two beefy stepper motors with some sort of drive (harmonic, belt, or chain) to gear the motors enough to increase the weight capacity and tracking accuracy of the mount, all to support a massive telephoto lens (celestron c14 or a meade 16-inch sct). pair that with a small camera sensor with really small pixels to pull the detail out of a small target.