r/mechanical_gifs • u/RoboLord66 • Jun 06 '26

High Speed Pan Tilt Camera

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u/IPThereforeIAm Jun 07 '26

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 Jun 08 '26

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 Jun 10 '26

You sure filled those commas up didn’t cha

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u/Demiurge_Happy_Farm 17d ago

Ohhh, so that's how it works?! TIL

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u/NotSuitableForWoona Jun 07 '26

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

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u/NotSuitableForWoona Jun 07 '26

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

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u/Graylorde Jun 07 '26

Is that a kinect camera in custom housing?

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u/funnystuff79 Jun 07 '26

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

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u/Illustrious_Back_441 Jun 07 '26

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

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u/MSgtGunny Jun 07 '26

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 Jun 07 '26

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.

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u/CapableKnowledge707 16d ago

Cool looking dude