IDS announced today that its uEye camera family now has 18 models with a cutting-edge 1.3 Megapixel CMOS sensor featuring global shutter readout mode, which is typically only available in more expensive CCD models. The sensor also boasts high frame rates, achieving a readout speed of up to 60 fps at full format depending on the interface. Using the optional binning and digital image scaling functions, the 1/1.8" sensor from e2v can deliver frame rates of over 100 fps. The highest resolution is 1280 x 1024.
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With CameraLink interface, Photonfocus introduces a new camera series, based on the newly developed 3rd Generation CMOS imager A1312IE from Photonfocus. The MV1-D1312IE cameras provides a high dynamic range of up to 120dB with the well known LinLog technology. The new camera is equipped with an extended feature set, satisfying all vision application needs whilst offering an outstanding image quality.
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The measurement technology of today has achieved accuracy and processing performance which allows an integration of acquisition and analysis in online production processes. For this purpose non-contact methods are almost solely used with need of high requirement on robustness and speed.
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Easier to handle and more compact and powerful: These are the characteristics new camera models should have when introduced to the market. Thereby, the cameras' performance is pushed by the developments in the consumer market. One consequence is the availability of new CMOS sensors with a resolution of 1.3 megapixels and global shutter technology. According to first tests, these sensors exceed the light sensitivity of existing sensors. Does this mean that CCD cameras are now becoming redundant?
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What a colorful world we live in... Well, not really. CCD and CMOS chips are only able to capture luminance values, thus making them color-bind. How is then possible for us to watch television in color? The answer to this contradiction is simple: Television cameras use three chips. Each is fitted with a filter - one per color red, green and blue. more
Jenoptik has now added two USB camera types to its ProgRes CCD microscope camera range: ProgRes SpeedXT core 3 and ProgRes SpeedXT core 5. Establishing this new product range, Jenoptik meets the increased requirements of a large user community in the industrial and scientific areas demanding perfect image quality in connection with outstanding speed.
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Modern CCD and CMOS Cameras use microlens arrays on top of the sensor to improve light efficiency. In front of every pixel a microlens focuses incoming light to the active area of the pixel. The efficiency is improved up to 20 %. But this lens makes the pixel very sensitive to the incidence angle of the light. This creates strong vignetting effects ("shading") at bigger incidence angles. For shading compensation SillOptics presents a new series of image side telecentric lenses. As the incidence angle of this lenses is always close to normal, the shading effect is minimised.
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