The camera delivers five frames per second at full resolution with frame rates increasing for smaller regions of interest in its five levels of decimation
Pixelink has announced an expansion of its product line of digital cameras with the launch of its latest offering aimed at the microscopy documentation market.
The new PL-A686 camera is a digital camera with 6.6 megapixel resolution.
It is said to be one of the first dedicated microscopy cameras in the world to offer this level of resolution without using expensive and slow pixel shifting technology.
The PL-A686 sensor is a one inch CMOS sensor with 3.5um square pixels providing a resolution of 2208x3000 pixels in both colour and monochrome versions.
The 6.6 megapixel resolution of the PL-A686 is complemented by controls to select a variable region of interest and five levels of decimation.
The camera delivers five frames per second at full resolution with frame rates increasing for smaller regions of interest in decimation modes.
For examples, a 1600x1200 region of interest can be displayed at 17 frames per second or a 648x480 region of interest can be displayed at up to 88 frames per second.
The PL-A686 will be shipped with the latest version of Pixelink Capture, a full-featured image capture application with image annotation and measurement capabilities.
Pixelink Capture allows the user to control the camera over the FireWire (IEEE-1394) interface and saves captured images and AVI files directly to the computer's hard disk.
Said to eb well suited to brightfield microscopy, the PL-A686 camera is aimed at microscopy applications, such as pathology, where large quantities of images need to be rapidly captured.
