Low Cost CCD Cameras

The Imaging Source announced a new line of cost effective Firewire VGA and XVGA zoom cameras. Their specifications are a 4.8–46 mm motor zoom lens, auto iris and one push auto focus. Zoom and focus are set by stepper motors, thus all adjustments can be reproduced. The iris is driven by a fast linear Hall element. An external trigger input is provided to capture images on demand. All cameras functions are software controlled and can be either set manually or automatically via an easy-to-use interface. The cameras ship with an extremely robust and stable, cast aluminium casting and with the SDK (software developer kit) „IC Imaging Control“ and end-user application „IC Capture“ to control the camera, display and save singular images, image sequences and image streams.