Camera File (.icd) for Dalsa Piranha 4 (P4-CM-08K070)

[Sridhar94]

Hey Sebastian,

Can you tell me why do you have Maximum height as 5000?

Thanks,

Sridhar

[SebastianM]

Hi Sridhar

The 5000 was an arbitrary number. It limits the number of lines that you can acquire into a single buffer.

In case of an area-scan camera, one buffer holds the data for one 2D image.

In case of a line-scan camera, one buffer holds the data of the number of 1D lines you requested (by setting the acquisition window height).  

So, just make sure that the Maximum Acquisition Window Height is great or equal to the number of lines you want to gather in one buffer.

Hope that was helpful.

Sebastian

[Sridhar94]

Hey Sebastian,

Thanks for the files and the information.

They work!! 🙂 🙂

Thanks,

Sridhar

[SebastianM]

Glad to hear I could help. 😃

Sebastian

[jchung]

Hi Sebastian,

I am wondering how and where did you get your camera file.  Actually  I am using the camera Dalsa Piranha 4 (P4-CM-02K10D).

Thank you,

James

[SebastianM]

Hi James

I built the camera file myself using the "Camera File Generator" software (which you can download from NI).

Just download my camera file (from one of the posts on the first page of this thread) and modify it with the CFGen.

Chances are that you only need to change the number of pixels to 2048. But of course you should check all settings with your camera manual.

Regards,

Sebastian

[jchung]

Hi Sebastian,

Thank you so much for your fast response!

That is great that since I already have the "camera File Generator" software. I could just download your camera file and modify it.

By the way, which video ouput mode you are using?  How to select it?

The video output mode/format has 2 tap - 8, 10, or 12 bit / 4 tap - 8,10, or 12 bit / 8 tap - 8 bit.

any thoughts?

Thanks,

James

[SebastianM]

Hi James

That depends on your application. Do you rather need the highest possible speed or rather a fine grey-scale color resolution?

8 tap - 8 bit gives you the fastest data transmission, but of course you have only 256 grey-scale values.

With 12 bit you get 4096 grey-scale values, but your data transmission is slower.

The maximum data transmission speed depends also on whether you use one CameraLink cable (base configuration) or two cables (medium or full configuration).

You should find all those things in your camera manual.

Regards,

Sebastian

[EvT]

Hi Sebastian,

We use the camera "P4-CM-02K10D-00-R" with the same frame grabber.

I adapted the icd-file you sent - now we get a picture, but are not able to change any camera attributes.

You wrote "Serial communication through Camera Link for reading & writing camera settings works well".

Could you send your camera file including the settings for the serial interface please?

At the momtent we try to figure out, if we have any driver problems because the framegrabber card won´t be identified as COM-Port.

Thanks

Sven.

[SebastianM]

Hi Sven

The serial communication has nothing to do with my camera file.

I use the IMAQ serial read/write functions (part of the NI Vision Acquisition Software package) to communicate with the camera under LabView. I don't know if there are frame grabber drivers which map the serial interface to a virtual COM port. The NI support should be able to answer that question.

Best regards,

Sebastian