With over 200 industrial camera configurations to choose from, PixeLINK's line of life sciences and machine vision cameras and software are designed for high-productivity image acquisition applications where detailed analysis is required. PixeLINK, a leading manufacturer of  Firewire (IEEE1394), USB 2.0 and Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) cameras, realizes the importance of flexibility when it comes to designing a line of cameras that will meet the specifications of user applications all over the world. From the beginning, they realized that most people needed more then just a "standard camera" to best meet the specifications of their application and with this in mind, created an array of camera options comprised of sensors, interfaces, and configurations to choose from.  From personal experience, the people over at PixeLINK are great to work with and really welcome the challenge of designing custom camera solutions to meet the needs of their customers in the event that one of their 200+ configurations isn't quite right. In addition to cameras, you can tell that they also take pride in being able to offer a wide range of 3rd party software support and their dedication and enthusiasm is evident whenever you have them on the phone. PixeLINK offers two SDKs, their signature μscope software for their microscopy cameras and their PL-SW-SDK OEM software for machine vision cameras. (A trial version of the μscope SDK is available on the PixeLINK website) The PixeLINK μscope software features live measurement and overlay settings, which allow users to perform measurements on the live preview image, using the crosshair or grid masks to centre and count.
  • The grid masks include calibration data.
  • Calibration marker (scale bar) can be placed on the live preview image.
  • The marker (scale bar) can also be automatically burned on each captured image.
  • Any standard file-format image can be chosen to see it above live preview image.
  • A time-lapse capture function supports TIF, BMP and JPG file formats.
  • It also includes an auto-save feature.
  • Video movie recordings can be saved in AVI, MPG, MPEG and MOV formats.
  • The edge parts of captured image by low magnification frequently have background shading, which can be removed by the shading-correction function.
  • The colour of the original image remains the same.
  • A standard image is acquired from a blank space on the slide glass, or from an out of focus image in a metallurgical specimen.
  • Such a standard image is used to correct the background shading of all other captured images.
  • This software is also available as an upgrade to existing owners of Pixelink Capture SE.
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The PixeLINK PL-SW-SDK is their Software Development Kit geared towards machine vision applications which includes full application programing interface compatible with Visual Basic, Visual C, Visual C++, C# and VB.Net. All in all, not only does PixeLINK offer really great, easy to use high performance camera solutions, but they do it with a smile which seems to be rare these days.  They have proven over and over again that they truly are commited to offering the best quality products in a time-to-market that works for their customers and the life sciences and machine vision markets are starting to take notice.