What is the difference between an industrial camera and a civilian camera?
The performance of the industrial camera is strong, stable and reliable, easy to install. The camera structure is compact and not easy to damage. It has a long working time and can be used in harsh environments. The general digital camera can't do this. For example, a civilian digital camera cannot work continuously for a long time, and cannot be quickly shot continuously. There is no mounting hole and it cannot be fixed on the machine.
Industrial camera shutter time can be very short, can be global exposure, you can capture high-speed moving objects. The shutter time of industrial cameras can generally be adjusted from 1/100000 seconds to 10 seconds. With the machine vision light source and strobe controller, the shutter time can be set to microseconds. The global exposure can effectively solve problems such as smear.
The image sensor of the industrial camera is progressive scan, and the image sensor of the civilian camera is interlaced. The progressive scan image sensor has a complicated production process, low yield, low shipment, and high price.
The frame rate of industrial cameras is much higher than that of ordinary cameras. Industrial cameras can shoot several to hundreds of images per second, or even thousands of images, depending on the camera resolution. A civilian camera can only take a few images, which is a big difference. For example, a 300 megapixel camera for industrial cameras can easily do 200 frames.
Industrial cameras usually output raw data, and its spectral range is often wider, more suitable for high-quality image processing algorithms, such as Machine Vision (Machine Vision) applications. The picture taken by a normal camera has a spectral range that is only suitable for human vision, and has been compressed, and the image quality is poor, which is not conducive to analysis and processing.
Industrial cameras are more expensive than ordinary cameras. Mainly determined by market needs. The shipment of industrial cameras is far less than that of civilian cameras, so the high cost is inevitable.