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M12 vs CS vs C Mount Lens Mount Guide: Specs & Compatibility

Compare specs, adapters, sensor coverage. Engineering guide for machine vision. M12 lens (S-Mount) mount: M12×0.5mm thread. CS-mount: 12.5mm FFD. C...

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CMOS Sensor Size

The sensor format size and pixel size of digital camera impacts many performance attributes of camera. The format type of a digital camera sensor i...

Lens Chief Ray Angle and Mismatch

The chief ray angle (CRA) of a lens and the chief ray of a sensor affect image quality factors such as color shading and vignetting.

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What is an M12 lens

An M12 Lens / S-Mount lens is a miniature lens with 12mm diameter threads. Despite the small size, these lenses can outperform DSLR camera lenses.

How to Clean a Camera Lens

Ever wondered about the best practices to clean a lens or image sensor? Our optical engineering experts have put together this article to explain a...

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High Dynamic Range

Motion Blur

Camera Exposure

Image Quality Summit

This post explores 12+ Image Quality Metrics and the impact on computer vision. The blog posts and video are from a talk that Max H gave during the...

Wide Angle Lenses and Fisheye Camera Lens Distortion

Optical distortion is a third order transverse aberration. The simple explanation is that distortion is the change in magnification (angular resolu...

Resolution 101

Even the experts interchangeably use the term "Resolution" when it actually refers to four different technical metrics. We ran across this misunder...

How to Focus an M12 (S‑Mount) or C‑Mount Lens: Engineer’s Setup Guide

If you've recently purchased one our M12 lenses or C-Mount lenses, the first step is to assemble your camera. We also offer camera module assembly ...

Raspberry Pi Video Conferencing

A few early users of our lenses are actively involved in the RPi community and mentioned the products in a thread. And many people were curious "we...

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Shutter Speed: HDR and Low Light

Shutter speed (or pixel integration timing) is a critical factor when defining the required low-light capabilities of a sensor/lens combination for...