There has always been a market for high-speed video photography. Unfortunately, this market is not as big as - say - the market for toasters so economy of scale dictates that these cameras will be rare and very expensive. A camera like one of the Phantoms can cost about $200K and up depending on the bells and whistles.
Enter the competition. I had known about the Edgertronic for a year - 1280X1024 @ 500 frames per second up to 192X96 @ 17,791 FPS - cost is $5,495
Now this - the fps1000 - has just started on Kickstarter. 29 days to go and £29,439 pledged of their £20,000 goal. The specs are much the same.
Let these be the opening salvo in the war for low-cost high-speed video!
I remember when the first color video displays came out for computers. They were marketed to high-end CAD, engineering workstations, medicine and motion picture special effects. They cost upwards of $2K in 1986 money ($5,700 in todays dollarettes - from here). And then, the Computer Games industry started and the juggernaut for big cheap graphics started rolling and we now have some amazing tools at our disposal. Looking forward to the same thing for high-speed video!
First camera to get 1,000FPS @ 1,920X1,200 for under $2,000 will get my money.