Adept Turnkey, the high speed camera specialists, are pleased to welcome the newest Phantom high-speed camera to its cinema and TV-focused line from Vision Research.

The Phantom Miro M120 was just released at this year's Vision show in Stuttgart. Marc Fimeri, the managing director of Adept Turnkey who attended Vision 2011 says "Vision Research have yet again redefined the boundaries of the high-speed camera market for Film and TV.

This new camera significantly lowers the barrier for those more cost-sensitive film and TVC budgets and we expect the uptake of this camera to be furious and rapid. We have for several years been unable to provide a lower-cost HD high speed option and while the Miro M120 does not seek to replace Vision Research's cornerstone products for Film and TV, the HD Gold and Flex, the Miro M120 will service a market as yet untapped by high speed camera manufacturers".

Why the Miro-120 is an attractive, low-cost option
Drawing from the success of the Phantom HD, HD Gold, and Flex, the new Phantom Miro M120 contains many of the advanced features in the high-performance Phantom cameras at a price affordable for budget to mid-range movie and TV commercial makers.

While compromising on cost, the lower-priced Miro M120 still focuses on image quality and produces a result users have come to expect from Vision Research, and all contained in a compact, rugged and portable camera.

The Miro M120 provides the cinematographer with an efficient and fast Raw workflow, capturing footage at 1920 x 1080 resolution, at speeds of up to 800 frames-per-second.

Available in 3, 6, or 12 GB memory configurations, the Miro M120 also introduces a new feature to the Phantom family, CineFlash (see image below), available in 60, 120 and 240GB sizes. This onboard, removable non-volatile, storage media, allows a transfer speed of up to 2.8GB/minute. Multiple cines can be transferred very quickly from volatile memory to CineFlash and the CineFlash removed and placed into the CineFlash docking station (see image below) for download to computer.

You have full control of the Miro M120 camera with an extensive suite of easy-to-use tools in the supplied Phantom PCC software, or you can use the optional Phantom Remote Control Unit (RCU) (see image below) – a tethered (with video) or un-tethered Bluetooth wireless (without Video) LCD touch screen controller with ergonomic controls and an easy-to-use interface.

Interchangeable lens mounts are available in 35mm PL, Canon EOS, Nikon F mount and C mount. The Miro M120 is supplied and can be run untethered by battery