Mini Camera News: Penny-sized Camera Big News For Mini Camera Buyers

Equipment has developed such a lot that gadgets that used to weigh a couple pounds

and sizes which will require their own baggage to carry around can now be fit into a package not larger than a 2 coin. Not surprisingly, Sony is at the forefront again as it lately unveiled what would be the littlest c-mount mini camera module in the marketplace.

Sony presented its new XCD-MV6 mini camera at the Vision Show in Stuttgart Trade Fair Center, a new addition to its already cutting-edge machine vision technologies. A c-mount camera lens is the standard used in CCTV cameras and microscope phototubes and features straightforward interchanging of lens while in use. Sony has developed the design even further with thinner rear and front panels as well as reduced number of PCB's used resulting in a rather more compact design and smaller camera footprint making it superb for use with a large inventory of commercial applications including safety systems.

The scale of the Micro XCD-MV6 is only nineteen x twenty-nine x 29mm or one x 1 x inches and only weights 37g. This size is only 2 / 3 the scale of other Sony machine vision camera modules which often measures 57.5 Mm in depth or two 3 / 8 inches. This very compact and miniaturized size combined with top quality image output make this module OK for applications where space is limited.

This mini-camera makes use of the FireWire interface or what is often referred to as the IEEE 1394b I / F digital video serial bus interface which is the standard interface used in fast digital communications and real-time information services. This is also the standard for all Sony PC's and audio-video devices but prior XCD camera modules only have a bandwidth of 800 Mbps while the MV6 can reach speeds of at least 1600 Mbps using the FireWire interface.

You might think this decrease in size could affect the video quality output from the camera, but the MV6 uses the most recent in FPGA technologies in its third type wide VGA world shutter that may deliver prime quality photographs, high performance levels but at only a tiny part of it power consumption levels. Other XCD camera modules have the same performance although not in a compact and little package the MV6 features.

The MV6 is perfect to be used with many industrial environments that have space limitations but require highres video output. These incorporate precision industrial applications like automated optical inspection systems, wire bonding, food processing and sorting, bottle inspection and pharmaceutical inspection. The mass feature makes the camera so easy to conceal, making it ideal for use with wireless security and surveillance camera systems.

Standard mini camera modules can cost from as low as $49.95 For cameras with black and white output, to as high as $199.95 For colour output. The XCD-MV6 has a black and white output and will very likely have a price tag between these price ranges when it is created commercially available towards the end of the present year.

by: Kate Liu

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