Machine Vision Camera Suppliers

In most middle-to-upper end Machine Vision systems, you must purchase your central element, the camera, from a third party supplier. Yet obtaining information for this critical element from the manufacturers is difficult, and support can be near non-existent. To top it off, just finding the website for certain manufacturers can be a chore. Listed below are links to various camera manufacturers — most are of reasonable quality, and some are your only available option for a specific manufacturer's system. We have also included some nuggets with in-depth information about various products.

Basler

Basler has a full line of high resolution area scan cameras as well as a small line of Line Scan cameras.

CCD Direct

CCD Direct is a direct wholeseller who also sells/resells used cameras, framegrabbers, and other equipment.

Dalsa

Dalsa is probably best known for their line scan cameras, but they also do have a line of area scan cameras as well.

JAI

JAI is based out of Copenhagen, Denmark. They recently acquired Pulnix and have added their products into the JAI mix. Where I have most seen the JAI camera's is High Resolution Analog applications. They also have high speed Camera Link units as well.

Panasonic

Panasonic has a small line of industrial black and white cameras and also sells some board level cameras.

Sony

Sony, the Japanese electronics giant, is probably the largest industrial camera manufacturer in the world. Their XC-75 product was the industry standard until just a few years ago when Sony obsoleted the product.