Mercury Series USB2.0 Cameras User Manual
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4.1.3.
Auto Exposure
The MER series camera is designed for the industrial applications, designed for automatic exposure control,
which can be adapted to different light variations without human intervention. The user can choose the
operating environment according to the surrounding environment, and sets the Maximum & Minimum
values of the adjustment, and
ExpectedGrayValue
, which can be automatically adjusted.
4.2.
PixelFormat
MER series camera supports two output PixelFormat:
Table4- 4 output pixelformat
Mode
Pixelformat
MER-030-120Ux
MONO8/RAW8(Bayer)
MONO12/RAW12(Bayer)
MER-125-30Ux
MER-132-30Ux
MER-500-7Ux
MER-040-60Ux
MONO8/RAW8(Bayer)
MONO10/RAW10(Bayer)
MER-130-30UM
MER-310-12UC
4.3.
Acquisition Speed
The speed of the MER series camera can be adjusted through
AcquisitionSpeedLevel
! The user can choose
the suitable acquisition speed level.
4.4.
Adjust Gain
4.4.1.
Analog Gain
The MER series camera can adjust the analog gain, and the range as follows:
Table4- 5 Analog Gain
Mode
Code range
Default
Gain
MER-040-60Ux
16 - 64
16
Gain(dB)=0.0625
×
Code (Code range: 16 - 64)
MER-130-30UM
MER-310-12UC
0 - 63
8
Gain(dB)=(-0.125)
×
Code (Code range: 0 - 8)
Gain(dB)=0.125
×
Code (Code range: 8 - 63)
MER-500-7Ux
9 - 63
9
Gain(dB)=0.1875
×
Code (Code range: 9 - 63)
MER-030-120Ux
MER-125-30Ux
MER-132-30Ux
0 - 1023
296
Gain(dB)=(0.0358
×
Code) + 5.75dB
(Code range: 0 - 1023)
