Only retrieving half of image (Basler avA 1600-65kc)

[Daklu]

Environment:

Win 7 x64

PCIe 1430 Camera Link grabber with firmware update

NI IMAQ 4.5

NI Max v4.7.0f4

NI Camera File Generator v2.0.6

Problem: 

My Basler Aviator 1600-65kc 1600x1200 camera only returns 800x1200 images.  Increasing the width to 801 pixels results in a timeout error.

Question:

I suspect the camera is using using 2 taps; however, the Camera File Generator doesn't allow me to select anything other than 1 Tap.  I looked into editing the camera file directly, but I'm not sure what the correct settings are.  Any ideas?

Thanks,

Dave

[toto26]

Hi

Your camera seems to be a color camera. So I thinlk you have selected 24(8-bit color) in the "Bits per pixels" settings. So when you select this option, you can only acquire 1 tap in color.

So if you cannot acquire the full image, it might not be a tap configuration problem.

Maybe you can try to set the "Bits per pixels" to 8,10 or 12 bits depending on the setup of your camera, just to see if you can acquire the full image.

Regards

[Daklu]

Spot on.  I can acquire the full image using 8 bit grayscale using 2-tap vertical interlacing.  Why are multi-taps disabled for color cameras in the Camera File Generator, and how do I work around it?  Incidentally, Pylon shows the camera is set up for 4 taps with a Bayer GR8 pixel format.

Thanks,

Dave

[toto26 · Accepted solution]

Hello,

What I suggest so is to acquire in RGB8 as you mentionned and to decode the Bayer frame by soft.

Do you plan to use it with LabVIEW? If yes, there is some VIs to do that.

Jérôme