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<h1><div style="display:inline; color:blue">SHORT OVERVIEW</div></h1>
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'''[[Elphel_353_series_quick_start_guide | Elphel353 Quick Start Guide]]'''<br>
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Read this if you just received your camera and want to get it up and running for the first time.
  
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There are many network cameras (cameras that can serve images/video without computer) on the market today. Some can provide high frame rate video, but are limited to 705x480 pixels or less. There are even some high-resolution (megapixel) network cameras, but they usually need a second or more to compress a full size image.  
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'''[[FPSControl | Controlling FPS]]'''<br>
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There are 2 operation modes free running and triggered. This explains the modes and how to work with them.
  
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Elphel cameras can do both. They can serve full size (2592x1936) images really fast — at 15 frames per second. And much faster at lower resolutions. High resolution may be very useful for security applications — a single camera with a wide angle lens placed in the corner can see over the whole room with the same quality as a narrow angle NTSC camera placed on a pan/tilt platform. And it can see it all at the same time without the need for any scanning.  
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'''[[Trigger | External/Internal Triggering]]'''<br>
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Use the camera internal pulse generator to set custom FPS, use an external connector to trigger image acquisition or sync multiple cameras together.
  
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Full resolution high frame rate even makes it possible to avoid using "digital pan-and-tilt" (sending out just a subwindow of the whole frame) — the usual way to overcome the slow operation of high resolution network cameras.  
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'''[[Adapter_ring | C/CS Adapter Ring Usage]]'''<br>
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Every kit contains this adapter ring to connect connect both C-mount as well as CS-mount lenses to the camera.
  
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Elphel cameras are powered by 48VDC through a LAN cable compliant to the IEEE 802.3af standard. This voltage makes it possible to use cables to the camera for about 100m - four times longer than 24VDC and 16 times longer than 12VDC — such lower voltages (not IEEE 802.3af compliant) are still used in some power over LAN cameras.
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'''[[SkippingBinning | Explaining Skipping & Binning]]'''
  
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All the embedded software and FPGA bitstream are stored in the camera flash memory which can be upgraded through the Internet.  
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[[Roadmap#Update_on_353.2F363_cameras|353/363]]
  
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There are other features that are useful for developers. Both the embedded software and FPGA hardware algorithms are Free Software.
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[[Using the cameras]]
  
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This Manual will help you not only to learn to use Elphel cameras more effectively, but also allow you to develop the camera software and hardware yourself.
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[[Camera software]]
  
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[[Live CD]]
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''Free Software and Open Hardware. Elphel, Inc., 2005''
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[[Camera hardware]]
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[[Diagnostic & repair]]
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[[Development documentation]]
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[[333 prices]]
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[[Information]]
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[[FAQ]]
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[[About Elphel, Inc]]

Latest revision as of 00:22, 9 February 2011

Notice

This page is currently being restructured: Work in progress.

Documentation

Elphel353 Quick Start Guide
Read this if you just received your camera and want to get it up and running for the first time.

Controlling FPS
There are 2 operation modes free running and triggered. This explains the modes and how to work with them.

External/Internal Triggering
Use the camera internal pulse generator to set custom FPS, use an external connector to trigger image acquisition or sync multiple cameras together.

C/CS Adapter Ring Usage
Every kit contains this adapter ring to connect connect both C-mount as well as CS-mount lenses to the camera.

Explaining Skipping & Binning

Outdated Legacy Links

353/363

Using the cameras

Camera software

Live CD

Camera hardware

Diagnostic & repair

Development documentation

333 prices

Information

FAQ

About Elphel, Inc

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