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4 Keys to Maximizing Digital Imaging Capture

 

 
This installment covers specific types of digital cameras available and ancillary equipment that should be considered to maximize the digital camera's performance in your machine vision application. Area cameras are often used to capture images of stationary objects or objects that move in more than one dimension. The image is provided to the camera as a series of lines composing a frame, and the camera generates a separate signal indicating the start and end of the frame. Common applications for area array cameras include pick and place machines, motion analysis, and lead inspection. Images from an area scan camera will not suffer from blurring as long as object's motion during the exposure period of the sensor array is not significant.
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Charge injection device (CID) cameras are used in analytical instrumentation, industrial machine vision, medical, scientific and aerospace applications. Learn more about CID Cameras
Machine vision systems are used for automated inspection and measurement in production environments. Search by Specification | Learn more about Machine Vision Systems
Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) cameras use image sensors that operate at lower voltages than charged coupled devices (CCDs), reducing power consumption for portable applications. Each CMOS active pixel sensor cell has its own buffer amplifier, and can be addressed and read individually.  Search by Specification | Learn more about CMOS Cameras
Low light cameras are designed for low light applications. They contain sensors that are highly sensitive to light and reduce images to a series of lines. Search by Specification | Learn more about Low Light Cameras
UV cameras have image sensors that detect light in the ultraviolet (UV) range. They are used to spot defects in industrial applications and as imagers in scientific applications. Learn more about UV Cameras
Product Announcements
Euresys s.a. - GRABLINK Express
The Grablink Express is at the cutting-edge of the Camera Link technology through the compliance with the new standard 1.2 including PoCL - Power over Camera Link. (read more)
Lumenera Corporation - Lumenera's Mini USB 2.0 Industrial Cameras
Lumenera's mini CCD USB2 cameras are designed for industrial and scientific applications, particularly those with low light conditions and/or tight space constraints. Offering the same performance as... (read more)
Lumenera Corporation - Intelligent Network Camera
Lumenera's Li045 series of intelligent network cameras are designed for general security applications, providing high quality, progressive scan images in the most difficult lighting situations. (read more)
Baumer Ltd. - New TZG01 Digital 3D Cameras
For robotic guidance and material handling/logistics systems, Baumer has introduced the new TZG01 Digital 3D Cameras designed to replace multiple camera systems and extend the potential of 3D object... (read more)
Lumenera Corporation - LUMENERA 32 MEGAPIXEL CCD MICROSCOPY CAMERA
The INFINITYX-32 pixel shifting camera is specifically designed for customers in the clinical, life and material science fields. Available at a fraction of the cost of competitive cameras, this... (read more)
Lumenera Corporation - Lu075 High-Speed USB 2.0 Industrial Camera
This high-speed USB 2.0 camera provides 60 fps at 640x480 pixels. Based on a high-quality 1/3" CCD sensor with fast global shutter - ideal for capturing objects in motion. Low light sensitivity... (read more)
Basler Vision Components - High Speed Area Scan Camera Basler A500
Basler A500 Series cameras are designed to meet today's increasing demand for area scan cameras with extremely high frame rates at megapixel resolution. (read more)
Industrial Vision Source - Sony XCL-5005/CR Color Digital Camera
Sony is expanding its Camera LinkTM family with the introduction of the XCL-5005 (B/W) and XCL-5005CR (Color) Digital Cameras for demanding industrial-inspection applications. Both the XCL-5005 and... (read more)
Topics of Interest
Area cameras are often used to capture images of stationary objects or objects that move in more than one dimension. The image is provided to the camera as a series of lines composing a frame, and the... (Read More)
We demonstrate a system for capturing multi-thousand frame-per-second (fps) video using a dense array of cheap 30fps CMOS image sensors. A benefit of using a camera array to capture high-speed video... (Read More)
The phrase high-speed imaging is generally associated with short exposure times, fast frame rates, or both. Supersonic projectiles, for example, are often impossible to see with the unaided eye and... (Read More)
This document provides guidelines for operating Basler cameras when the following two conditions are fulfilled at the same time: ?? The exposure time for an image capture overlaps the sensor readout... (Read More)
The primary digital image recording devices are the digital scanner and the digital still camera. In recent years, these devices have become commonplace, leading to a proliferation of digital images. (Read More)
See more product announcements for CID Cameras
Sony New GigE Cameras for Machine Vision

Sony New GigE Cameras for Machine Vision
Sony Visual Imaging Products


Phantom® v640 Camera for Industrial Applications

Phantom® v640 Camera for Industrial Applications
Vision Research


The world's fastest high speed camera

The world's fastest high speed camera
Photron USA, Inc.


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