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i would have to get birds opinion, but I know Paul Haese is just about to be in the position of have 18" of light for his sdm, the exposure he can get down to means he can capture at 75 - 100 fps IF and a big IF, something can get the frames from the camera and store it.
His laptop has a 7200 rpm drive, but I feel the hard drive and maybe even some of the buses in the computer may not be able to handle the optimum of say 100fps in 12 bit.
The USB 2.0 or even the Firewire will be fine, but will the bus or the hard disk be the weak links?
I tested the LU Cam Recorder over the last few nights with a Lumenera LU075m. Capturing to the hard disk, 8 bit @ 30 fps was fine, 8 bit @ 60fps peaked out at 50 fps, 12 bit @ 30 fps was around 24fps and 12 bit @ 60fps also peaked at 26 fps.
If however I wrote to the memory, then a full 60fps and 12 bit was easy!!!
So the hard disk was not able to keep up with 640x480 12 bit frames coming in at greater than say 25 fps?
And to think the skynyx cameras can get up to 1024 x 768 I think.
This will be a very important over the next few year, there will be bigger but portable mirrors ie SDM's, huge focal lengths, fast cameras with bigger greyscale ie 16bit, but the poor old medium to capture it on (the harddisk) is no where near fast enough!!
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