Ful high speed "camera" project

[mikeselectricstuff]

If they used an EMCCD for the detector lighting becomes not a big issue.

But cost does - I don't know enough about EMCCDs (electron-multiplying, like a photomultiplier)  to know if fast readout is possible, but combining two exotic image sensor technologies is not going to be cheap

[Rasz]

About that Stanford experiment with webcams - you dont need to sync them in hardware, you dont even have to worry about clock drifts.
All you need is a fast marker (lets say a 10K rpm motor with a colored plate) in the picture for use in post processing to sort frames.
I could totally see an array of 10 Casios shooting 10K fps clip

[JoeyP]

If they used an EMCCD for the detector lighting becomes not a big issue.

They use CMOS rather than CCD sensors. From what I read, CMOS sensors are supposed to be more sensitive than standard CCD sensors, but only marginally so.