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The Blackmagic Micro Studio Camera from the article makes a really great little machine vision camera. Compared to _anything_ available from a traditional machi
by cpgxiii 4y ago
The Blackmagic Micro Studio Camera from the article makes a really great little machine vision camera. Compared to _anything_ available from a traditional machine vision vendor that will take controllable lenses, it's way cheaper and smaller. All of the equivalents generally take EF-mount lenses, while the BMD micro cameras take fairly cheap Micro 4/3rds lenses. SDI, while requiring slightly special hardware on the computer end, offers great bandwidth and extremely long cable lengths if you use fairly cheap fiber adapters and is vastly more reliable than USB cameras.
Only real complaint I have is that there's no feedback on lens configuration (zoom position, aperture, focus position, etc) in the SDI output. It could totally be encoded in the VANC data of the output video frames (the same way commands are sent via SDI to the camera).
- jollyllama 4y agoI was thinking, looking through the post, that it'd be interesting to try to train a learner on the parameters of the camera control system. When you say "machine vision camera", are you talking about an industrial application, robotics, or something else?
- cpgxiii 4y agoI use them for robotics work, but they'd be usable for industrial tasks as well. Significant outdoor use requires enclosures, but that's true for any of the cameras that aren't already IP67 rated (and not a lot of those have controllable lenses).