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Compatibilty report avA-120kc

I would like to purchase the Basler avA-120kc with a NI PCIe-1429 framegraber. The compatibility report for the Basler avA-120 kc states:

“This camera file must be used with the Basler Pylon Utility available from Basler”.
(see ftp://ftp.ni.com/support/imaq/camera_support/camera_files/digital/basler/Basler%20avA1000-120kc%20Co... ).

I am new to programming a Camera Link camera. Does this mean that the camera must be configured in the Basler Pylon Utility and that frames can be viewed afterwards in MAX or acquired in LabVIEW?

Does anyone have some experience in programming this camera in LabVIEW?

Thanks a lot, Bert.
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Hi Bert,

 

It means the camera file just contains enough functionality to allow the framegrabber to know how to acquire the image data, not how to control all the features on the camera. You will have to run the Basler Pylon utility to change any settings within the camera itself and then you can save those settings into the camera. Then when you acquire in IMAQ, the camera will use those settings you configured in Pylon.

 

Note that if you still want to control some features dynamically from LabVIEW you can still send serial commands directly with the IMAQ API. You just need to make the commands match the format that Basler describes in their manual.

 

Eric

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