High
resolution cameras, by which I mean 12Mp and up, are expensive. In
fact I recall the first 16Mp cameras working out at around $1,000 per
megapixel. And as for framerates, well maybe 3fps was achievable.
How
things change. I was recently alerted to a 12Mp camera from Emergent
Vision Technologies
of Coquitlam, British Columbia, which runs at 87.5 frames per second.
Best of all, the HS-12000
is priced around $5,000, so that’s a lot of pixels and a torrent of
data bits per second.
Key
to this performance are a CMOSIS sensor with 5.5 m pixels, (yes, it
takes an F-mount lens,) and a 10GigE interface. 10GigE is rather like
honest politicians: I’ve heard of such a thing but I’ve never
actually seen one.
So
this is all rather exciting. Emergent’s location provides another
interesting twist too. Coquitlam, British Columbia is less than five
miles east of Burnaby B.C., which was home to Prosilica,
(subsequently the Canadian arm of AVT.) And Burnaby is five miles
east of Richmond B.C., home to Point Grey.
Anyone
care to take a bet on where the next Canadian camera maker will come
from? Port Moody looks a good bet.
1 comment:
Any experience with those?
In fact, any experience with other 10GigE so far?
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