Vendors of Vision Related Equipment
Please take the time to forward your own vendor related
information so that I can include it on this page. Thanks. cjtaylor@cs
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Sure, it's the sponsor's money, but the farther you stretch it,
the more goodies you can buy. This web page is an attempt to pool
the collective purchasing savy of the VASC community. Hopefully
it will become a resevoir of VASC consumer knowledge where the
first time buyer can go and quickly locate the top product vendors.
This isn't the only CMU page on Vision Vendors. There is a
Computer Vision Hardware
page written by VASC's Mark Maimone. He's included links which
are not listed here, so if you're not satisfied with these listings,
try his page.
There is also a Camera and Lens Folder
on CMU's campus which has spec sheets for (surprisingly) cameras and lenses.
Camera Systems
Canon
- Ricky Houghton's group have a Canon VCC1 camera that allows you to
control the zoom, pan, tilt, backlighting, white balancing and
shutter speed from an RS-232 port. Cost: $2000. He has a socket
based server control package written for the camera. Ricky's
volunteered to email you the specs if you're interested.
(houghton@WHIRL.SPEECH.CS.CMU.EDU)
Parker Vision
- Ricky's also looking at a CameraMan system from Parker Vision.
This camera has twice the speed of the Canon VCC1 and a much larger
pan/tilt range. However, the unit appears to be bigger and is more
expensive (~$2600). There is no development software available yet.
You can buy this system through
RPC Video, our local distributor.
Seperate Cameras
IVS - Industrial Vision Source Mail Order
EG+G Reticon Manufacturer
Dalsa Inc Manufacturer
Sony Manufacturer
Temet - Manufacturer
Vision Research/Photographic Analysis Company - High Speed Camera Manufacturer
Southern Imaging, Inc. Panasonic and Sony clones.
More Info
CMU Camera and Lens Folder
List of the cameras in use at CMU
IVS - Industrial Vision Source Mail Order
Pittsburgh Camera Exchange Used Lenses - good deals.
Kadet Photo Local vendor.
Nikon Manufacturer
47th St. Photo For a new lens, this might be your cheaper bet.
Most of the Camera manufacturers have their own line of C-mount lenses as well.
More Info
CMU Camera and Lens Folder
RGB Monitors
TriState Video
IVS - Industrial Vision Source
Data Translation They make image processing boards predominantly for PCs, though they also support Macintosh, NuBus and VMEbus compatible frame grabbers.
Alacron They make a framegrabber card which includes an independent DSP chip which you can program with an ANSI C compiler. This board is compatible with Dalsa cameras.
BitFlow, Inc. PC Framegrabbers
Dipix PCI Digitizers, framgrabbers + imagining boards
IVS - Industrial Vision Source Mail Order - I haven't checked with them, but they probably carry framegrabbers as well.
Directed Perception Mobile Camera Mounts
Techno - XY Tables Mobile Camera Mounts
The people on this list are vision resellers. Apparently, they used Lycos
or some other web crawler to locate my page (among others).
They requested that their company be listed here. I've had no
dealings with them myself.
Vision1 - These guys have
a web page out there which you can access which is "dedicated to provide
a complete vision and imaging equipment and manufacturer resource
to companies and individuals with vision product needs." They appear
to want to sell you a packaged system, and/or provide you with
technical support. They have a fairly extensive listing of individual
products.
OMNIX -
"OMNIX specializes in providing the scientific and industrial community
with innovative imaging solutions."
They carry SBUS, PCI, ISA, VME, VESA and JPEG Frame Grabbers;
PCI, VME Real-Time Image Processors; Industrial CCD Cameras and
JVC Professional Video equipment. They also perform custom integration
and supply camera lenes and optical components.
Doug Johnson from Sales sent me Email: djohnson@omnix.win.net
Tectivity - These guys contacted Mark Maimone. I piped their email advertisement to a file.
These guys make IO boards and processing boards. I think they also have a framegrabber board.
Contact Information:
- Phone Number: (603) 891-2750
- CMU Contact: Steve Monsees (412) 268-3890
- Location: ?
PC based Framegrabbers
Contact Information:
- Phone Number: (617) 932-2900
- CMU Contact: Jeff Wilson
- Location: 21-G Olympia, #80, Woburn, MA 01801
Camera Manufacturers
Contact Information:
- Phone Number: (516) 328-5996 FAX: (516) 328-5959
- CMU Contact: Christina Ahren
- Location: ?
Camera Manufacturers
Contact Information:
- Phone Number: (519) 866-6000 Fax: (519) 886-8023
- CMU Contact: ?
- Location: 605 McMurray Rd., Waterloo, ON, Canada N2V 2E9
Manufacturers. On the image processing side, they make frame grabbers,
image processors, and application level software. They also make data
acquisition boards and software. Their image processing boards run
primarily on the PC with products for PCI, ISA, and EISA buses,
however they also have Macintosh NuBus and VMEbus compatible frame grabbers.
Contact Information:
- CMU Contact (Customer): Neil Cronin: ext 6301
- CMU Contact (Technical): Ron Curtis: (508) 481-3700 ext. 401
- Location: , MA
Dipix
Manufacturer of PCI digitizers, frame grabbers and imaging boards.
Contact Information:
- Phone Number: (800) 724-5929
- Email:plamar@dipix.com
- CMU Contact: Paul Lamar
- Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Some words from Dipix:
We specialize in frame grabbers for machine vision.
These grabbers work with both digital and analog cameras up to 48 Mhz
input bandwidth. Non-standard linescan cameras form both Dalsa & EG&G
are supported. All boards come with on-board Texas Instruments
TMS320CXX Digital Signal Processors supported by extensive image
processing software. Co-processors boards with pipeline hardware like
ALU, Convolvers, Histograms and Area Paremetr Accelerators are also
available.
Mobile Camera Mounts
Contact Information:
- Phone Number: (415) 342-9399
- CMU Contact: ?
- Location: ?
Camera Manufacturers
Contact Information:
- Phone Number (508) 745-7400 Fax (508) 741-4583 Main office: (408) (lost it)
- CMU Contact: Stephen Conway
- Location: ?
These guys are a Mail-Order shop. If they have something, you
probably won't find another outfit that beats their price. The
problem is that they don't have that much vision equipment. You
can get cheap VCRs and the like from them.
Contact Information:
- Phone Number (800) 221-8180
- CMU Contact: None
- Location: New York, NY (They ship out of NJ)
These guys are a Mail-Order shop. It's a good place to start out at
since Paul appears knowledgable. They provide a slight discount for
purchases of 4 or more, but nothing to write home about. Their
prices are pretty good on the whole.
Contact Information:
- Phone Number (800) 627-6734
- CMU Contact: Alan McDonald, extension 629
- Location: Carrollton, TX
These guys are very conveniently located (I biked down from my
lab one time). They take purchase orders.
Contact Information:
- Phone Number: (412) 261-7258
- CMU Contact: Denny Edwards - Technical/Video/AV Sales
- Location: 1004 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Lens (and conventional camera) manufacturer.
Contact Information:
- Phone Number (800) 645-6687
Camera Manufacturers
Contact Information:
- HQ Phone Number: (800) 532-8034
- Regional Phone Number: (717) 626-4991
- CMU Contact: Geran Mortison (Morrison?)
- Location: ?
These guys are conveniently located. They deal in used lenses.
We managed to get a really good deal on a discontinued Nikon lens
from them. Tom was really helpful with showing us the various lenses
they had and working on some of the details of our problem.
Contact Information:
- Address: 529 E. Ohio St., Pittsburgh, PA 15212
- Phone Number (412) 422-6372 Fax: 231-1217
- CMU Contact: Thomas Salvie
- Location: 529 E. Ohio St., Pittsburgh, PA 15212
Steve appears a difficult man to get in touch with.
Contact Information:
- Phone Number (412) 828-1414
- CMU Contact: Steve Obenereder
- Location: , PA
Sony has everything, except decent technical/customer support.
If anyone knows of a better number than the one listed below,
please let me know.
Contact Information:
- Phone Number (800) 222 - Sony
This company sells predominantly the "Costar" brand of cameras,
which makes cameras nearly identical to some SONY and PANASONIC models
but with a 2-year, parts+labor warranty and price about 20-30%
lower. In particular, the CV-M50 is almost identical to the SONY XC-75
and the Panasonic GP-MF602, but costs less than $500 for single
cameras (lower prices, of course, for larger quantities).
Contact Information:
- CMU Contact: Bruce Kendall
- Phone: 1-888-446-1301
- Address: P.O. Box 117745, 1115 Derbyshire Place, Carollton, TX 75011-7745
Mobile Camera Mounts
Contact Information:
- Phone Number: (516) 328-3970
- CMU Contact: ?
- Location: ?
Contact Information:
- Email: info@tvi.fi
- Phone: (770)428-1280
- Fax: (770)428-7806
- CMU Contact: Joseph A. Reini, Product Manager
- Location:
1850 Parkway Place, Suite 420
Marietta, GA 30067
Info provided by Temet
T.V.I. Temet Vision Industry Oy manufactures color and black & white
digital line scan cameras for machine vision markets. Also custom & OEM
cameras available. Our full color digital line scan camera scans at up to
2000 lines/second, generating a dynamic 12 bit signal in three channels
(RGB). Temet Vision, Inc. serves North and South America. T.V.I. Temet
Vision Industry Oy serves all others.
These guys provide delivery to CMU and also allow you to test out the
equipment to see if it works with your setup.
I contacted them (4/13/95) about RGB Monitors. Chuck Miller came
by with one for $700. He's familiar with CMU and came right to my lab
with the monitor.
Contact Information:
- Phone Number (412) 898-1630
- CMU Contact: Chuck Miller.
- Location: Valencia, PA
Mail order place (unless you visit them in NYC). Mostly lenses,
though they have tripods and other photo accessaries.
Contact Information:
- Phone Number: (800) 847-4191
If you are on CMU's campus, there is a binder which you can borrow.
I'm currently the curator, so if you send me email, I'll let you
know whether it's on loan or not. finger cjtaylor@cs for directions
to my lab. If you can't get in touch with me, you can still stop by
and check with my officemates to see whether or not the folder is
available. The usual loan period is 1-2 days. It contains specification
sheets on a wide variety of CCD cameras from the following camera vendors:
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1. Sony
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2. Panasonic
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3. Toshiba
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4. TI
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5. Watec
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6. Pulnix
Most of the cameras listed below are included.
It also includes information on C-mount lenses from:
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1. Fujinon
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2. Canon
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3. Nikon (C-mount Adapter)
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4. Tamron
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5. Cosmicar
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6. Computar
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7. Rainbow
The cameras covered include: B/W, Color Composite, and Color Component.
Camera sizes range from standard industrial size to subminature.
Cameras
Sony:
XC-73 XC-75 XC-77 XC-77BB XC-77RR XC-711 XC-711RR XC-007 XC-999
DXC-107 DXC-151 DXC-760MD DXC-960MD
Pulnix: TM-1000
Panasonic:
GP-MF102 GP-MF200 GP-MF502 GP-MF552 GP-MF702 GP-CD40 WV-BL200/202/204
WV-BD400 GP-KR402 GP-KR212 GP-KR412 GP-KS102 GP-KS152 GP-UR612 GP-KS202
GP-KS252
Toshiba:
IK-M41A IK-M41MA IK-632A
TI:
MC-1000 MC-1134P Mitsubishi CCD-200U
The best way to get references is to either borrow the CMU folder
or to call these places up and ask for a spec sheet.
C.J. Taylor (cjtaylor@cs.cmu.edu)
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