Are there any toolkits or dlls to enable control of Photron APX camera using labview?

[pchitnis]

Are there any toolkits or dlls to enable control of Photron APX camera using labview?  I need to use labview to setup the image acquisition parameters, then arm the camera for external trigger, wait for the images to be captured, and then write them to the PC's hard drive.  So far, I have not found any drivers, toolboxes, etc. that allow me to achieve this in a simple manner.  Any help would be appreciated.

[Andy_C.]

Hello pchitnis,

I've looked over Photron's website but it does not provide much information on the image acquisition or proprietary software that is used. I would suggest contacting Photron in this regard.

[pchitnis]

Hi andy,

Thanks for your continued efforts to help.  It seems that Photron has C APIs that one might be able to convert into DLLs.  I wonder if this is the only viable option?

[Andy_C.]

Hi pchitnis,

If you use a camera-specific DLL to work with your camera, you can use the Call Library Function Node VI to call and interact with the DLL.

If your camera-specific DLL returns a numeric array to represent your image, you can use the IMAQ ArrayToImage VI to convert it into a form that LabVIEW can handle if you need to use it for other vision VIs. You would first need to use IMAQ Create to create a destination for that image to be placed, and wire its "New Image" out terminal as the "Image" input terminal to the IMAQ ArrayToImage VI.

[wbadry]

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