Posted to News on 5th Oct 2015, 16:52
Scorpion Vision introduces PixeLINK industrial cameras
In 2014 PixeLINK announced production of the world's first industrial cameras to include an electronic, focus-controllable liquid lens. Since its production, this industrial camera has been hugely popular in the medical, inspection and security markets around the world. Now Scorpion Vision has been named as the exclusive distributors of the groundbreaking cameras in the UK.
Enabling auto focus with no moving parts, the cameras offer low power consumption, high shock resistance, and fast autofocus change in milliseconds. Along with this, utilising Varioptic electrowetting technology, the cameras can provide an incredible, fast, noiseless and controllable auto focus ranging from 10cm to infinity. The Varioptic lens also has a 16mm effective focal length which offers application-controlled and user programmable-controlled auto focus capabilities in board-level and enclosed PixeLINK cameras.
Commenting on the innovative cameras, Paul Wilson of Scorpion Vision says: "These new industrial liquid lens cameras from PixeLINK are truly revolutionary. We are particularly impressed with the variable region of interest capability that these cameras offer. The frame rate increases dramatically as you reduce the field of view on the sensor, so it is possible to have a phenomenal 1000 frames per second. These cameras are an exciting addition to the PixeLINK range particularly for OEMs and industrial camera users in the medical, inspection, ANPR and security markets. They have already proved to be hugely popular in other parts of the world so we are delighted to now be bringing them to the UK."
While the typical lifespan of a mechanical lens system is a few hundred thousand cycles, liquid lenses have been tested over 100 million cycles without performance degradation. Liquid lenses can also reconfigure themselves in tens of milliseconds, making them well suited for high-vibration environments and applications that require fast focus changes.
Follow the link for more information about the PixeLINK liquid lens autofocus cameras, available for the first time in the UK through Scorpion Vision.
