Romanian Film Festival TIFF To Unveil World’s Fastest High-Speed Digital Video Camera

The world’s fastest high-speed digital video camera Phantom V12, created by a team of Romanian researchers and designers, will be presented for the first time this year, on June 5 and 6 at the Transylvania International Film Festival (TIFF), in Romanian northwestern city of Cluj.

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The Phantom V12 was used to produce the "Time Warp" documentary broadcast by Discovery Channel, which features a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) using the Phantom V12 to present in slow motion phenomena that people cannot perceive with their own eyes, because things happen way too fast.

The Phantom V12 camera takes pictures at the fastest possible frame rate, which are presented in slow motion, turning a series of apparently ordinary events into really spectacular images.

On June 5, Romanians will get to see a preliminary demonstration, while on June 6, they will get to watch scenes from "Time Warp" on the spot, while using two Phantom V12 cameras at the same time. Romanian Andrei Palatkas, who won a Discovery Channel contest with a similar documentary, will be the man behind the shooting.

Phantom V12 has the highest throughput of any CMOS-based digital high-speed camera. At a chosen resolution, one can get the fastest possible frame rate. At a chosen frame rate, one can get the highest possible resolution.

Phantom V12, the world's first CMOS-based high-speed camera, is capable of taking 1,000,000 pictures-per-second.

Launched in 2008, Phantom V12 was used, among others, for advertising campaigns at the Beijing Olympics and during the 2009 SuperBowl Gala. In Romania, high-speed digital cameras produced by Vision Research were used for advertising campaigns, TV commercials, music videos and movie scenes.

The Discovery Channel is an American satellite and cable TV channel (also delivered via IPTV, terrestrial television and internet television in other parts of the world), founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It provides documentary programming focused primarily on popular science, technology, and history.

Discovery Channel was also launched in Central Europe, namely, in Poland back in 1996, as well as in Romania and Hungary in 1997.

The 8th edition of the TIFF will take place in Cluj-Napoca, during May 29 - June 7.

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