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How to Configure Your 2D Vision System Correctly

So you have all your material in hand: a camera, a lens, a light source.  Now you need to figure out how to configure this.  Well, if you have a Robotiq camera, just sit back and relax, because all will be set up automatically.  Take a coffee and read this post as a general knowledge article that will remind you of photography lessons or physics classes.  If, on the other hand, you have a camera that you need to set up yourself, you will need to balance the lens aperture, the camera’s exposure time and the light used. You surely have taken a picture at some point in your life that was not a professional shot: some things were blurred, or a flash was saturating a picture, or the focus was on the background instead of the main subject. Well, if you want to use a camera to look at an object, you will need to adjust the camera with the optimal settings, in order to get the best results possible.

Audrey Boucher-Genesse
By Audrey Boucher-Genesse
on Jul 14, 2016 in Vision Systems. 3 min read time
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