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Hi Dietz - a lot depends on your budget, there are good cameras to be had at both the low and high ends, but from my experience with several cameras I find that you always get more value out of the higher end cameras as they will have useful features that tend to be missing on the low end cameras.
The best feature for me is to set an arbitrary speed in fps and have the exposure automatically adjust to use all the time available, ie if you ask for 20fps then each frame is exposed for 1/20 second. This sort of feature is normally not found on the cheaper cameras like the DMK21AF04 which only gives you a set list of speeds to choose from.
Cameras like the Dragonfly2 from PGR and (so I'm told) the SkyNyx cameras have this feature available.
If money is no object I'd suggest waiting for a month or so and checking out the new PGR camera that is being launched March/April. It looks to me to be the best candidate for a new camera this year (high sensitivity, high speed - firewire 800 - and equipped with a 14 bit a/d converter... yum yum, will likely cost an arm and a leg :-)
cheers, Bird
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