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Divesting myself of my previous round of toys in preparation for a new toy I just bought
SGI Altix UV100:
4-socket system, 32 cores (4x Xeon X7550), 64GB RAM
I also have another chassis that would theoretically scale it to 8 sockets, but I do not have the official cables to connect them. I can throw in some Meritec cables with the correct connectors on them, but no idea whether they will actually work.
Comes with install media for SGI SUSE Linux.
Asking $650 + shipping.
Xeon Phi system
4x Xeon Phi 31S1P, Asus P8Z77-WS motherboard, Antec HCP 1200W power supply.
Just add an Ivy Bridge processor and DDR3 and you're good to go. I put substantial effort into getting this setup to work properly (getting Phi's to turn on in anything reasonable is really hard, it turns out).
Asking $600 + shipping
Basler acA1920-155uc machine vision camera
155FPS 1080p raw-recording camera, 16mm-sized sensor with global shutter. Great image quality, can be used for cinematic uses or machine vision.
Asking $500 (this camera is a current generation camera that costs $1K from Basler).
Mamiya 645AFD digital medium format camera with Leaf Valeo 17 digital back and 80mm lens
The Valeo is a somewhat ancient back that requires a tethered Mac or a Firewire hard drive contraption, but gives incredible image quality, far beyond the resolving power of most DSLR's.
Asking $1000, which I believe is fair considering recent eBay sales.
SOLD on a different forum.
Redlake MotionXtra HG-SE high speed camera
500FPS@1280x1024 into internal RAM. Requires Firewire, but the control software runs on any modern 32-bit OS. This particular unit comes with 1.3GB of internal RAM.
Will include 24mm f/1.4 Rokinon lens and a camera rig contraption I put together to make use more ergonomic.
Asking $1500
Photron Ultima APX
This was the worlds' fastest camera in 2006; 2000FPS at 1024x1024 (with framerate going up to 4000FPS@1024x512 or 6000FPS@512x512) into 8GB of RAM; 17x17mm BSI sensor with a base ISO of 800. I wound up with this guy off a lucky eBay auction with a foggy sensor glass which I was able to remove (so it uses external thread-on IR filters instead) and a strange IP address which I was able to sniff out using Wireshark. Currently modded to have a speedboosted Contax C/Y mount and a Yashica 50mm/1.4 to get that precious last stop of light, but will ship with the stock F-mount as well.
Disclosure: the composite output is dead, so you will need a tethered laptop to run it. Also, image download is balls slow seeing as it happens over 100mb ethernet (you'd think on a $150K camera they would have used gigabit, right?) but that's normal.
Asking $5000. I doubt anyone will bite, but it's a neat piece of gear that I use once a year so might as well put it up for sale.
SGI Altix UV100:
4-socket system, 32 cores (4x Xeon X7550), 64GB RAM
I also have another chassis that would theoretically scale it to 8 sockets, but I do not have the official cables to connect them. I can throw in some Meritec cables with the correct connectors on them, but no idea whether they will actually work.
Comes with install media for SGI SUSE Linux.
Asking $650 + shipping.
Xeon Phi system
4x Xeon Phi 31S1P, Asus P8Z77-WS motherboard, Antec HCP 1200W power supply.
Just add an Ivy Bridge processor and DDR3 and you're good to go. I put substantial effort into getting this setup to work properly (getting Phi's to turn on in anything reasonable is really hard, it turns out).
Asking $600 + shipping
Basler acA1920-155uc machine vision camera
155FPS 1080p raw-recording camera, 16mm-sized sensor with global shutter. Great image quality, can be used for cinematic uses or machine vision.
Asking $500 (this camera is a current generation camera that costs $1K from Basler).
Mamiya 645AFD digital medium format camera with Leaf Valeo 17 digital back and 80mm lens
The Valeo is a somewhat ancient back that requires a tethered Mac or a Firewire hard drive contraption, but gives incredible image quality, far beyond the resolving power of most DSLR's.
Asking $1000, which I believe is fair considering recent eBay sales.
SOLD on a different forum.
Redlake MotionXtra HG-SE high speed camera
500FPS@1280x1024 into internal RAM. Requires Firewire, but the control software runs on any modern 32-bit OS. This particular unit comes with 1.3GB of internal RAM.
Will include 24mm f/1.4 Rokinon lens and a camera rig contraption I put together to make use more ergonomic.
Asking $1500
Photron Ultima APX
This was the worlds' fastest camera in 2006; 2000FPS at 1024x1024 (with framerate going up to 4000FPS@1024x512 or 6000FPS@512x512) into 8GB of RAM; 17x17mm BSI sensor with a base ISO of 800. I wound up with this guy off a lucky eBay auction with a foggy sensor glass which I was able to remove (so it uses external thread-on IR filters instead) and a strange IP address which I was able to sniff out using Wireshark. Currently modded to have a speedboosted Contax C/Y mount and a Yashica 50mm/1.4 to get that precious last stop of light, but will ship with the stock F-mount as well.
Disclosure: the composite output is dead, so you will need a tethered laptop to run it. Also, image download is balls slow seeing as it happens over 100mb ethernet (you'd think on a $150K camera they would have used gigabit, right?) but that's normal.
Asking $5000. I doubt anyone will bite, but it's a neat piece of gear that I use once a year so might as well put it up for sale.
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