sharpVISION™ Digital Camera
sharpVISION™ User Manual
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• Controlled exposure from 35 μsec up to 15 minutes in increments of 1μsec.
• Fast inter-frame time (200 ns) for Particle Image Velocimetry applications.
• 12 bit digitizer (8 and 12 image bit depth).
These features make the sharpVISION digital cameras suitable for different applications:
• Astronomy.
• Microscopy.
• Spectroscopy.
• X-Ray Imaging.
• Motion Analysis.
• Biological Analysis.
• Particle Image Velocimetry.
The sharpVISION™ cameras contain an IEEE-1394 (FireWire™, iLINK™) interface, which
offers true plug-and-play capabilities at a high-speed data transfer rate. The cameras are
provided with a software package that includes a Windows application, an ActiveX control,
a TWAIN driver and a software development kit which includes the complete Visual C++
source code of a working example of an image acquisition sample program to help you
integrate camera controls into custom applications, using the API supplied by IDT.
The cross-platform manual provides instructions on using the sharpVISION digital camera on
the Windows and MAC OS/X platforms. The Windows and MAC icons below denote
differences in setup, procedures and commands between Windows and MAC users.