Photron is an international company that manufactures high-speed digital cameras based in Tokyo, Japan, with offices in San Diego, California and the United Kingdom.

A few of the industries include: flow visualization,[1][2] flame propagation,[3] ballistics,[4] firearm studies,[5] material science,[6] weapon development,[7] biological science,[8] biophysics,[9] vehicle impact studies (crash safety),[10] manufacturing, mining, automotive, and scientific research.

Photron expanded into photo optics and electronic technologies including the manufacture of high speed digital cameras.

[11] Photron advanced their sensor technology in 1990 by working with Kinki University in Japan on a new design based on a block readout multichannel NMOS architecture.

[11] In 1997, Photron started sales of the SLSM Super Slow Motion System made by EVS, a Belgian company.

[citation needed] In January 2000, the company established the subsidiary Photron USA in San Jose, California.

In 2003, Photron moved its head office, Ebina Plant, to the present location at Fujimi, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo.

[11] In late 2013, Photron Inc. in San Diego came out with the FASTCAM Mini UX100 high speed camera for ballistics testing and other uses.

[14] In 2020, the president of Photron was Takashi Takimizu, and the head office remained in Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, in the Jimbocho Mitsui Building.