Firstsight Vision will be showing a number of new cameras, illumination sources and inspection systems at the PHOTONEX Exhibition, highlighting the company’s technology base for inspection, automation and robotics applications.

New for PHOTONEX will be an extremely simple ‘XGA output' colour camera which can be used purely for visualization. This camera connects directly to a TFT or similar monitor and has a built in cross hair generation for accurate alignment, making it an inexpensive and elegant imaging system.

Also new for PHOTONEX will be StockerYale's Flat-Top² Generator, a laser beam shaping module that converts a Gaussian beam into a focused, collimated, or diverging flat-top profile. This innovative product can maintain a high degree of uniformity, power, and intensity over large distances and is ideally suited to illumination in bio-instrumentation.

Complete inspection systems include the IPD VA61 compact machine vision solution with the new colour iNspect software. Colour iNspect is a versatile and easy to use inspection tool that can be applied across a wide range of industries. The underlying toolset includes capabilities for positioning, measuring, identification and flaw detection.

The VA61 contains all the processing power in a rugged enclosure, instead of the camera head. It supports multiple GigE cameras and has an additional GigE compliant network port.