In response to the increasing need for telecentric lenses with higher & higher magnification, Moritex (www.moritex.com) has developed a new micromachine lens, the SOD-10X. Most 10X - 20X vision ...

Finding the right set of lenses for your machine vision system can be a daunting task. Wiebke Marzahn of Sill Optics addresses some common concerns by breaking the puzzle down into a number of key ...

Barrington, NJ. Edmund Optics is now offering its TECHSPEC compact telecentric lenses with six new models with working distances of 220 mm and 300 mm. Featuring a telecentric design across all ...

My July column (“Calibrate camera coordinates and colors”) described techniques you can use to calibrate vision systems. In some cases, though, basic calibrations do not suffice. General-purpose ...

Perspective errors, or parallax, are part of everyday human experience. In fact, they let the brain interpret the 3D world. For example, closer objects to appear relatively larger than those away.

A standard machine-vision system consists of five basic parts: the camera, optics, illumination or lighting, the image-acquisition hardware, and the machine-vision software. While some people tend to ...