Edgertronic SC1+

Some of what decides a pitch or a swing happens faster than any eye or phone can follow — how the fingers come off the ball, where the seams sit at release, what the barrel does in the last few inches. The Edgertronic SC1+ records it at thousands of frames a second, so a coach and athlete can step through it one frame at a time.

Why it looks different

• Global shutter. The whole frame is exposed at once, so a fast-moving arm or bat is captured crisp instead of bent by rolling-shutter distortion.
• Very short exposures. Exposure runs down to 1/800,000 of a second, sharp enough to read seam orientation on a ball in flight.
• Triggered capture. An external trigger saves the moment that matters, and multiple cameras can be genlocked to record the same rep from different angles.

The hardware

Clips save as H.264 to a removable SD card and are reviewed through a browser-based control panel with live preview. The camera takes Nikon F-mount lenses and is built in a hard-anodized aluminum body.

How we use it

Maven shows how the whole body moves; the Edgertronic shows the finest detail at the hand and the barrel. TrackMan measures a pitch's spin, and high-speed video shows what the fingers did to create it — which is where pitch design starts.