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ADVANCED CAMERA SETTINGS

Shutter speed

is the duration of time which the camera shutter is open, which affects the amount of light

the camera sensor is exposed to and the time it takes to

Unless we’re outdoors in sunlight it’s better to use a manual shutter speed, otherwise it’s likely the video

will be too blurry for sports analysis. To reduce blur we recommend a shutter speed less than 2ms (2000μs),

with adequate lighting the shutter speed can be less than 1ms (1000μs).

How bright the video image will be is a combination of the shutter speed, gain settings, lens aperture and

how much light is available.

Changing the shutter speed

Summary of Contents for BLACKFLY S GIGE

Page 1: ...FLIR BLACKFLY S GIGE Getting Started guide...

Page 2: ...head screws included with the camera Unpack the lens and make sure to remove the plastic lens covers Remove the sensor cover from the camera and attach the lens to the camera with a twisting motion HA...

Page 3: ...way come into focus Aperture The iris adjustment controls how much light is able to pass through the lens A more closed aperture will result in a sharper image but the image will also be darker Zoom A...

Page 4: ...sure that your computer has an available PCI Express slot for this card To install the dual port network card please watch the video tutorial below clicking the image will open the video link Please...

Page 5: ...ect see all drivers and download the driver for Blackfly S Spinnaker compatible cameras Once downloaded click on the executable and follow the setup wizard Choose Camera Evaluation Leave I will use Gi...

Page 6: ...prompted to run AdapterConfigGUI If not it can be located in C Program Files FLIR Systems Spinnaker shortcuts utilities Click Start and select any Intel R 82574L adapters Click on Smart Config and the...

Page 7: ...meras Select your camera from the list and click Advanced The Advanced Camera Settings window exposes many settings which you might find handy Note that most of the settings are set to auto We can cha...

Page 8: ...ox is unchecked the frame rate is essentially set to auto note the maximum frame rate of this camera is 291 FPS To achieve the maximum frame rate all of the settings need to be set to manual Frame rat...

Page 9: ...unlight it s better to use a manual shutter speed otherwise it s likely the video will be too blurry for sports analysis To reduce blur we recommend a shutter speed less than 2ms 2000 s with adequate...

Page 10: ...oor Sometimes it is worth having a slightly higher gain at the expense of noise in order to bring the shutter speed down to get sharp frame by frame video of an object e g club at impact baseball bat...

Page 11: ...pixel on the camera sensor will return By increasing the black level value we can make the image brighter Our recommendation is to leave this at the default values For more details on improving your...

Page 12: ...appearing too red or too green Normally we recommend to leave this setting to auto continuous but in order to achieve the maximum frame rate this needs to be turned off By enabling auto white balance...

Page 13: ...d packet size are connected to each other in the sense that in order to use the largest throughput the packet size needs to be set to 9000 In order to achieve the full frame rate this must be done ADV...

Page 14: ...red for each image By reducing the image size we can increase the frame rate as the overall pixel readout requirement is smaller Reducing the height and width can have a positive effect on frame rate...

Page 15: ...he Y offset which can be helpful as an alternative to physically moving the camera due to the reduced image size If we go back to the Camera tab and look under frame rate we now see the maximum frame...

Page 16: ...is set to 9000 this is crucial for good performance It s also important that the network adapter is setup to use 9kB jumbo frames so both the camera network adapter match One GigE camera at 291 FPS w...

Page 17: ...es please refer to pages 14 and 15 on how to use ROI Other problems Depending on your hardware it might not be the best to have the sharpening and denoise filters on turning these off will reduce some...

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