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AVT Guppy support

Does anyone has some experience with AVT Guppy and Vision Acqusition SW?
I try to use colour camera (F080C), but MAX provides just monochrome video mode.

Could you help me?

Best regards

Lukas
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The Guppies are very-well supported from the NI IMAQ-1394 driver, as are all AVT cameras.

Here is the link to the very good NI description:

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/2977

Under "Setting up The Application" you can find the step by step instructions.
 
The NI-driver has an automatic debayering integrated. This can be chosen in the Measurement & Automation Explorer (MAX) under "Bayer Color" (Bayer Pattern RGRG_GBGB).

Regards,

Scott
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Lukas

The AVT cameras return the color information as either Bayer or YUV data. I believe the Guppy returns Bayer data by default. One way to verify this is to zoom in on your apparently monochrome image and look for evidence of a mosaic pattern. This will confirm that you need to do Bayer decoding. At this point go to the Bayer Color tab in Measurement & Automation Explorer. Select the appropriate bayer pattern, calculate  your gains and acquire an image. You should receive a decoded color image now. Be sure to save your settings.

Hope this helps,

Johann S
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Thank you Scott, thank you Johann, your answers are right and helped me. I was confused, because my earlier experiences were just with Marlin line cameras. Guppies requires little different setting and I did not know it.

Lukas
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Hi, i can confirm that AVT Guppy work fine with NI software. I sue it with CVS and i never get problem at all.

Ciao
Alessandro Ricco
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