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PL-B742F
Pixelink High performance, 1.3 megapixel colour camera
designed specifically for machine vision applications
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Industrial Vision CMOS
Colour/Mono : Colour
Resolution : 1280 x 1024
Frame Rate : 27
Lens Mount : C
Sensor: 1/2" CMOS
Bit Depth : 8 or 10
Pixel Pitch : 6.7 µm
Interface : FireWire
Trigger Type : H/W or S/W
Shutter Type : Global & Rolling
Gen Purpose Outputs : 2 multi-function
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The PL-B742F is a high performance, 1.3 megapixel color camera designed specifically for machine vision applications. Fully IIDC 1.31 compliant, the PL-B742F uses a standard FireWire interface for plug-and-play operation with the host computer. Extended features, such as trigger and general purpose outputs add a level of functionality to the PL-B742F, providing excellent performance for the price. Factory calibrated Digital Pixel Correction and on-board Flat Field Correction (FFC) provides image quality similar to high-end CCD cameras.

The PL-B742F has a rich set of features and capabilities all controllable through software. A global shutter and external trigger allows for synchronization in demanding machine vision applications. In video mode, the camera can deliver up to 33 fps at 1k x 1k resolution, up to 107 fps at VGA resolution (640 x 480) and up to 8000 fps at 724 x 8, all with user-definable region of interest (ROI). Full field-of-view images can be decimated for high speed transmission. The camera has a user-selectable 8 or 10-bit output. The CMOS sensor architecture provides excellent anti-blooming capability. With the Software Developer’s Kit (SDK), PixeLINK supplies an extensive Application Programming Interface (API) and camera control Graphical User Interface (GUI) for fast and easy application development. This functionality includes additional trigger modes, general purpose outputs that can be used as communication lines for strobe signals for lighting and motion controllers. Included is an on-board user-programmable lookup table (LUT) applied in real time, on-board non-volatile memory for camera configuration and camera configuration descriptors for quick changes to camera settings between frames. Multi-slope dynamic range controls, enables balanced exposure in images with large inner-scene dynamic range. This extended Shutter logarithmically increases the linear dynamic range of 54db to greater than 100db.

Specifications

Camera Specifications
Colour / Mono Colour
Resolution 1280 x 1024
Frame Rate at Full Resolution 27
Sensor Type CMOS
Shutter Type Global
Lens Format C 2/3”
Pixel Pitch 6.7 µm
Sensor Diagonal 11.01 mm
Bit Depth 8 or 10
Power Consumption (Watts) 2.9W
Variable ROI Yes
Right-angle Capable Yes
Interface (FireWire) 6 pins x 2
Camera Features via FireWire
Trigger Options Hardware - Optically Isolated 5-12V @ 4-11mA, Software and Free Running
General Purpose Outputs 2 Optically Isolated - Maximum 40V Differential. Maximum 15mA
Image Quality Measures
Responsivity (Peak) 7.3DN/(nJ/cm2)
Dynamic Range 54.6 dB
FPN < 1%
PRNU < 1%
Read Noise < 2 DN
Image Quality Measures
PixeLINK Capture OEM Free
SDK (incl. LabView Wrappers) Optional
Direct Show Compatible Yes
Windows Compatible 2000/XP
IIDC DCAM Compatible Version 1.31) Including Format 7 Extensions

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