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Dear Customer

We hope this camera will be an always valuable tool for your scientific day in, day
out work.

Comments, suggestions or any new idea on our system are welcome.

We are at your disposal at any time, also after your buying of this camera.

Your PCO Team

pco.

imaging

PCO AG

Donaupark 11

D-93309 Kelheim

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Summary of Contents for pco.1200 hs

Page 1: ...pco camera User s Manual www pco de...

Page 2: ...be reached by phone fax email or mail telephone 49 0 9441 2005 55 fax 49 0 9441 2005 20 email support pco de mail address PCO AG Donaupark 11 93309 Kelheim Germany The cover photo shows a pco camera...

Page 3: ...9 1 7 2 Back Focal Length Adjustment 9 2 CAMERA STARTUP 11 2 1 Preparation 11 2 2 Turn on the PC 11 2 3 Turn on the Camera 11 2 4 Starting Camware 11 3 CAMERA FUNCTIONS 12 3 1 Components and Data Flo...

Page 4: ...Software Development Kit SDK 33 5 3 Drivers 33 5 4 Third Party Software Drivers 33 5 5 Firmware Update 34 6 SERVICE AND MAINTENANCE 35 6 1 Service 35 6 2 Camera Maintenance 35 6 2 1 Cleaning the Lens...

Page 5: ...companying text warning notices may result in the risk of death Disregarding this symbol and the accompanying text warning notices may result in system damage and data loss This symbol and the accompa...

Page 6: ...nstruction manual the de vice is still not operating properly If the camera has been dropped or the casing is damaged If the device is not operating normally Do not force the lens onto the camera To p...

Page 7: ...monochrome display Some older graphics cards only use 6 bits for monochrome display in 256 color mode resulting in 64 gray levels which can be displayed on the screen 1 5 1 What s in the Box The pco...

Page 8: ...o decompress these files with an appropriate program e g WinZip or the like After decompression start the installation by double clicking on starter exe More detailed information about the camware ins...

Page 9: ...apter For image sensor formats of 1 3 1 2 and 1 we recommend the use of C mount lenses For the 1 1 5 range there are special C mount lenses available but most often F Mount lenses should be used For c...

Page 10: ...camera front plate The distance between the lens sup port plate and the image sensor can be changed by turn ing the total F mount adaptor If you want to adjust for the infinite lens position the lens...

Page 11: ...the front panel of pco power and look for the power and status LED lights The power light displays the operating status of the power supply while the status light displays the operating status of the...

Page 12: ...g ex posures and to prevent thermally induced changes in the offset of readout images After multiple shift processes in case of the CCD image sensor these charges are analog processed see Figure 3 1 a...

Page 13: ...re The image memory is divided into four memory segments that accept images see Figure 3 2 The user determines the size of the segments Information about the delivered camera s image memory size is fo...

Page 14: ...ry unit a page The size of this page is 1280 pixel for CCD image sensors and 3584 pixel for CMOS image sensors memory segment 1 page Figure 3 4 Ilustration of one memory segment e g memory segment 1 I...

Page 15: ...and stores im ages It is only possible to transfer the image data to the computer after the recording is finished However if the Live View function see chapter 3 5 is used it is possible to follow the...

Page 16: ...l recording the camera determines the fast est possible image uptake rate depending on the adjusted delay and exposure times and the required readout time The trigger can only control the beginning an...

Page 17: ...has been initialized the status of the acq enbl signal at the BNC input is checked Therefore both signals are important for image recording exp trigger ctrl In exp trigger ctrl exposure control mode...

Page 18: ...e 3 9 Time lapse illustration of the image recording for the asynchronous image recording and delay time tdelay 0 mode The arrows indicate the beginning of each recording sequence the times are not dr...

Page 19: ...tread tdelay tdelay delay time texp exposure time tread readout time In the case of no delay time tdelay 0 images can be re corded immediately one after another However the user must consider whether...

Page 20: ...s the beginning of the image recording sequence the times are not drawn to scale If the exposure time texp is shorter than the readout time tread see Figure 3 13 the camera inserts a system delay time...

Page 21: ...ve The arrow indicates the beginning of the image recording sequence the times are not drawn to scale If the exposure time texp is smaller than the sum of the readout time tread and the delay time tde...

Page 22: ...tion 1 TTL level or 10 15V If a positive or negative signal controls the exposure after initialization of the exp trig start operation mode the DIP switch is in position 2 The image acquire control si...

Page 23: ...tual exposure as an invalid acq enbl can prevent an exposure from being started The only way to interrupt an image sequence recording in the exposure control mode auto sequence is to use the acq enbl...

Page 24: ...smission of the live view images In record mode images are recorded and they are written into the active memory segment depending on the mem ory operation mode s sequential or ring buffer The live vie...

Page 25: ...be used by the control circuit to keep the adjusted temperature cool ambient max 5 C After switching the camera system on it may take up to 10 minutes for the system to reach steady state 3 8 Color Va...

Page 26: ...enishes the missing color information for each pixel by using the corresponding intensity value for the neighboring pixel within their color filter This 2 x 2 operator is applied pixel wise to the ima...

Page 27: ...the others Then the image is magnified by a factor of two using bilinear interpolation This method achieves better visual results than the first method dis cussed above and is just as fast The camware...

Page 28: ...e color the two color values that are missing are calculated by the mean values of the neighboring pixels This results in a 3 x 3 matrix with the pixel of interest in the center The matrix is shifted...

Page 29: ...can now be displayed in the corre sponding RGB Lookup Tables The white balancing func tion can correct any color variation caused by different color filter sensitivities More information can be found...

Page 30: ...SDK manual which is available free of charge 4 1 Interface Structure While it is running on the PC application software can send the camera commands and request status informa tion at any time Image...

Page 31: ...nnel is 32 MB s The standard cable length is 1 5 4 5 m Longer cables ranging from 10 20 m are possible within the specification of IEEE 1394a and are available on request The pco camera system is full...

Page 32: ...lation com solution_center_imag ing Camera Link pdf http www nortechsys com intercon camlinkart shtml 4 4 Gigabit Ethernet Gigabit Ethernet is a Peer to Peer architecture If only a camera is connected...

Page 33: ...D ROM For updated versions please visit our website at http www pco de 5 3 Drivers A Twain Driver and a Firewire 400 driver for Windows XP are available for pco cameras integration These drivers are l...

Page 34: ...t is done over the existing interface with no special cables or other equipment needed The update is done via the special programmer software which is in cluded in the firmware update zip file package...

Page 35: ...with pressurized air or with liquid cleaners such as pure alcohol or with special optical cleaners that are available at high quality photo stores 6 2 2 Cleaning the Camera s Input Window The cooled p...

Page 36: ...s If additional cleaning is necessary use suitable liquid cleaners Liquid cleaners for optical devices are either pure alcohol or special optical cleaners available in high quality photo stores Never...

Page 37: ...Chapter 7 Appendix page 37 7 Appendix 7 1 Camera Mechanical Dimensions Camera front view C Mount F Mount User Manual pco camera status 12 2004...

Page 38: ...Chapter 7 Appendix page 38 Camera rear view Firewire IEEE1394 Camera Link User Manual pco camera status 12 2004...

Page 39: ...Chapter 7 Appendix page 39 Camera side view C Mount F Mount User Manual pco camera status 12 2004...

Page 40: ...Chapter 7 Appendix page 40 Camera bottom view Camera top view User Manual pco camera status 12 2004...

Page 41: ...ower supply serial number pco power Operating system PC Processor type PC Memory Graphic card Graphic card setup At the web site www pco de support there is an informa tion form to fill out and send b...

Page 42: ...cludes electronic devices which can con tain materials harmful to the environment If the camera is to be discarded please dispose of it in an environmentally responsible manner and use recycling facil...

Page 43: ...y in day out work Comments suggestions or any new idea on our system are welcome We are at your disposal at any time also after your buying of this camera Your PCO Team pco imaging PCO AG Donaupark 11...

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