Patent ID: 8164670

Claim:
A high speed video camera comprising: a remote status indicator including a plurality of illuminatable lamps; and a controller arranged to control, collectively, the illumination of the plurality of illuminatable lamps so that they display to a user of the camera, at a location remote from the camera, a plurality of different patterns or sequences representative of a respective plurality of different statuses of the camera, wherein each of the plurality of illuminatable lamps is a multicoloured lamp, capable of being illuminated in a plurality of different colours, and the controller is further arranged to cause each of the plurality of multicoloured lamps to illuminate in a particular colour and in a particular sequence relative to the others of the plurality of lamps in the remote status indicator, in dependence upon the particular camera status to be indicated; and further comprising a video image display unit, the controller being further configured to cause an image or representation of the status of the plurality of illuminatable lamps to be captured or generated for display along with, and synchronized to, captured video images, upon the video image display unit, wherein the image or representation of the status of the plurality of illuminatable lamps is an image of the plurality of lamps.