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When searching for industrial cameras people might run across products for sale listed as either "A" or "B" stock. What does each "grade" mean? "A" stock - refers to brand new, unopened/factory-sealed products from the manufacturer. Prices are typically higher because it is a brand new item. Pretty straight-forward, right? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "B" stock - refers to (1) items where the...

In an announcement made by Sony last week, the XCL-5000 Black/White 5 Mega Pixel Industrial Camera is scheduled to be discontinued as of September 2008. In its place, Sony is recommending the XCL-5005 (monochrome) or XCL-5005CR (color) ultra high resolution 5 mega pixel PoCL industrial cameras. These two cameras adopt the AIA’s PoCL standard (Power Over Camera Link) and feature...

The TM-200NIR camera offers high performance with excellent near-IR sensitivity at a very affordable price. Designed to meet a variety of application requirements, this camera has many standard and optional features. It is available in both EIA (TM-200NIR) and CCIR (TM-300NIR) formats. The most commonly needed adjustments – manual gain, gamma, AGC, and field/frame selection – are easily accessible on...

According to yesterday's press release from Intel, its "Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI) draft specification revision 0.9 in support of the USB 3.0 architecture, also known as SuperSpeed USB" is now available." Industry rumors indicate that we should be seeing USB 3.0 demonstrations at next week’s IDF in San Francisco. USB 3.0's software and hardware interface, (xHCI), will give manufacturers...

To support the rapidly emerging Camera Link® standard, Nortech Systems Intercon 1 developed a robust, industrial grade, high-flex cable assembly. Camera Link® is a camera-to-frame-grabber interface specification based on an implementation of National Semiconductor's Channel Link technology. Camera Link defines a single connector for both the frame grabber and the camera. This ensures that all products bearing the Camera Link...

BitFlow recently made the announcement that their Karbon-CL PCI Express bus frame grabber now supports the new Basler A406k 10-tap Camera Link camera. The BitFlow Karbon-CL is the fastest frame grabber in the world, capable of taking in up to 160 bits of data, up to 20 taps, and clock rates of up to 85MHz. The Karbon-CL plugs into the...

ELMO industrial communication cameras have many features including on-screen display, daisy chain capabilities, bi-directional audio and zoom. WIDE PAN/TILT RANGE & QUICK SPEED Panning range of 300° (150° left, 150° right) Tilting range of 120° (+90° and -30°) Pan/tilt speed of maximum 90° per second Wide horizontal field of view of 65° (when equipped with an optional wide conversion lens...

Formerly GenWac, Watec brings to the table two updated versions of the WAT-902H camera, the WAT-902H2 and the WAT-902H3 Supreme. These 1/2" and 1/3" IT CCD cameras offer Near-infrared lux sensitivity of 0.0005 at F1.4 making either of the WAT-902H2/H3 Supreme the perfect camera for night surveillance and extreme low light environment security and surveillance applications. Overview for WAT-902H3 Supremes...

The DXC-390 industrial camera is a 1/3" type DSP 3 chip color video camera which incorporates Exwave HAD® technology -- a new Sony technology that greatly improves camera sensitivity (F8 at 2000 lx) while reducing smear compared to previous CCD technologies. Using a C Mount lens and providing resolution of 800 TVL and a high S/N ratio of 62 dB...

Sony enhanced its line-up of block cameras with the introduction of its new "D version" wide dynamic block cameras at the end of 2007. The FCB-EX490D high resolution industrial camera incorporates a ¼"-type EXview HAD™ CCD with Advanced Digital Signal Processing to reproduce clear, detailed images at an extremely high horizontal resolution of 530 TV lines. The FCB-EX490D features an...