FirstSight - Day and Night Lenses

Day/night lenses

Firstsight Vision

Firstsight Vision now offers a comprehensive range of day/night lenses. While most other lenses can only focus certain wavelengths, leaving a blurred image with other light sources, the day/night lenses can focus both visible and infrared light. The lenses can improve images illuminated by the sun, moon, halogen car headlights and sodium street lighting.

The day/night range features 14 monofocal manual and DC iris lenses and an array of varifocal lenses with focal lengths from 2.5mm to 80mm. The range includes a 1⁄2-inch format C-mount DC iris varifocal lens used for traffic and ANPR situations. The lenses are also suitable for use in discrete night vision applications to focus IR images, eliminating the need for artificial lighting.

Firstsight Vision also provides day/night zoom lenses featuring a focal range from 7.5-1500mm with functions including presets, iris override, motorised back focus and 2x range extenders.

FirstSight - High Speed Cameras

New additions to the CamRecord high speed camera series

FirstSight Vision

FirstSight Vision has released two cameras from its Optronis range of CamRecord high speed cameras, together with GigE connectivity and an enhanced camera control package.

The CamRecord 450 is an entry level high speed camera, offering a frame rate of 1000fps at full 800 x 600 pixel resolution. Frame rate can be increased to 2000fps at 400 x 300 pixel resolution.

The CamRecord 5000 is a high-sensitivity high speed camera with a frame rate of 5000fps at full sensor resolution of 512 x 512 pixels. By selecting reduced sensor areas, the frame rate can be increased up to 320,000fps. Both cameras have a maximum memory of 4Gb.

The entire CamRecord camera range is now available with the new GigE Vision interface. This offers twice the download speed of Firewire versions of the cameras and an increased data transmission distance of 100 metres compared to 10 metres for Firewire. A fibre optic Gigabit Ethernet interface is optionally available.

The new CamControl V2.0 control software for the CamRecord cameras has a fresh new look and can now accommodate the Gigabit Ethernet interface. In addition, it now supports the use of multiple cameras with multi camera control and a new ‘sensitivity scroll bar’ allows easy adjustment of the sensitivity of each camera.