Thursday, May 16, 2013

Sources for Telecentric Lenses


Announcing new telecentric lenses for 12k and 16k sensors, Italian lens manufacturer Opto-Engineering reminded me that they are “the telecentric company!”

Curious about this claim, I scrolled through my favorites for other providers of telecentric lenses. Melles Griot, Schneider Optics, and Navitar all showed up, and I’m sure there are other vendors/manufacturers too.

That got me wondering: how big is the global market for telecentric lenses? It can’t be above a couple of thousand units a year, can it? And if you figure the median price of a telecentric lens is say, $3,000, then you’re looking at a global market of $6M.

Not exactly huge is it? Although I suspect it is rather profitable.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

How many factories are there? Brand is nothing..

Anonymous said...

Check out STEMMER IMAGING
http://www.stemmer-imaging.de/,
distributer for market leading companies in telecentric lenses which are SILL and OPTO ENGINEERING...

Anonymous said...

Missing some of the best one out there: Schott-Moritex

http://www.schott-moritex.com/english/products/mv/mvl/telecentric/index.html

Anonymous said...

Opto Engineering is the leading manufacturer of bi-telecentric lenses worldwide. The lenses are produced in Italy and each single unit undergoes strickt quality control procedures and is released with its own test report certifying its optical specs. OE is the only company that in the lenses datasheets provide the real measured specs and not just virtual taken from Zemax, therefore the customers are sure to receive just what they want. Smart optical design and high product modularity permit to offer the products with the best price/quality ratio on the market. Moreover, a team of expert optical designers anticipates the market's demands and each year several new product families are released. Thus, they don't follow the market of machine vision optics, but very often, they invent it!
I may say that there's no other similar lens company in the market... which is something those guys should be proud of!

Brian Durand said...

I'm seeing more companies offering telecentric lenses. Many are just reselling lenses manufactured by others, either with or without a private label stuck on the side. For example, the offering from Navitar looks about identical to those actually made by Opto Engineering...

Anonymous said...

Brian, you got the point!