Piranha4 2K and 4K Color Camera User's Manual
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Teledyne DALSA
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Appendix C: Quick Setup and
Image Acquisition
If you are familiar with the operation of Camera Link cameras and have an understanding of imaging
fundamentals, the following steps will show you how to quickly set up this camera and begin acquiring
images.
1. On Power Up
The color camera has been calibrated and configured at the factory to be ready for your evaluation when
first powered up. The default conditions are set as follows:
System gain is set to the lowest value of one.
Flat field calibration is
not
active as this feature is dependent on your light source and lens.
Line rate and exposure time are set to for internal generation by the camera.
White balance is set for white LEDs.
Camera Link mode is set to the standard RGB medium mode which allows operation of up to 40
KHz line rate. The camera will run at up to a 68.5 KHz line rate using Camera Link Deca mode,
but it may be easier to start your evaluation using the medium mode. Set your Camera Link
frame grabber up to receive the standard RGB medium mode.
2. Communicating with the Camera
The color camera is designed to power up with a GenICam-compliant interface.
CamExpert provides an easy-to-use GUI that can be used to set up and evaluate the camera.
The camera also comes with Teledyne DALSA’s three letter command (TLC) interface option,
which can be accessed using a suitable terminal program such as HyperTerminal™.
If you want to use the TLC interface, press the ‘Esc’ key while using a terminal program and
after the LED indicator on the camera turns green. Note that the camera defaults to 9.6 KBaud
when first powered up.
On receiving the ‘Esc’ character, the camera will output a list of the available TLC commands.
You can then proceed to enter TLC commands as required.
Enter ‘h’ at any time to get the list of commands from the camera.
Enter the ‘gcp’ command at any time to get the current setup conditions of the camera.
