Point Grey Flea3 GigE Technical Reference
7 Image Acquisition
7
Image Acquisition
7.1
Asynchronous Triggering
The camera supports asynchronous triggering, which allows the start of exposure (shutter) to be initiated by an external
electrical source (or hardware trigger) or from an internal software mechanism (software trigger).
Flea3 GigE Supported Trigger Modes
Model
Mode
All
Standard External Trigger (Mode 0)
All
Bulb Shutter Trigger (Mode 1)
All
Skip Frames Trigger (Mode 3)
All
Multiple Exposure Preset Trigger (Mode 4)
All
Multiple Exposure Pulse Width Trigger (Mode 5)
FL3-GE-13S2
FL3-GE-28S4
Low Smear Trigger (Mode 13)
All
Overlapped Exposure Readout Trigger (Mode 14)
All
Multi-Shot Trigger (Mode 15)
To access trigger modes:
n
GenICam—
Acquisition Control
n
FlyCapture API—
AsyncTriggerEx
n
CSRs—
TRIGGER_MODE: 830h
7.1.1
GenICam Acquisition Control
Name
Display Name
Description
Value
AcquisitionMode
Acquisition Mode
Sets the acquisition mode of the
device
Continuous
Single Frame
Multi Frame
AcquisitionStart
Acquisition Start
Starts the acquisition of the
device
Write Only
AcquisitionStop
Acquisition Stop
Stops the acquisition of the device
at the end of the current frame
Write Only
AcquisitionFrameCount
Acquisition Frame Count
Number of frames to acquire in
Multi Frame acquisition mode
AcquisitionFrameRate
Acquisition Frame Rate (Hz)
Controls the acquisition rate (in
Hertz) at which the frames are
captured
AcquisitionFrameRateControlEnabled
Acquisition Frame Rate
Control Enabled
Enables manual control of the
camera frame rate
True
False
Revised 10/29/2013
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