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Buying Cameras

Top-level product categories: icon detectors and measurements, icon vision, displays and imaging

More general product categories: imaging instruments

More specific product categories: hyperspectral imaging instruments, infrared cameras, line scan cameras, machine vision devices, microscope cameras, photo cameras, terahertz cameras, video cameras, X-ray cameras

Related product categories: camera objectives, beam profilers, image sensors

There is a wide range of different camera devices made for various applications. CCD and CMOS cameras are often used for visible or near-infrared spectral regions, supporting uses in surveillance, machine vision, consumer video, microscopy, and astronomy. Each type offers specific advantages depending on the application requirements.

Making Good Purchase Decisions

As the most professional photonics purchasing portal, RP Photonics helps you to not only to find all relevant suppliers (not limited to our advertisers), but also to make good purchasing decisions.

NEW: Structured Decision Process

Purchasing involves a lot of responsibility. We recommend that you apply best practice by using the following structured process: Go through the following expandable sections, complete the form and finally come to a purchase decision. You can then print that to a PDF for documenting the process.

Our article on best practices for purchasing and another one explaining this tool give you valuable insights.

1. Understand the technical background

It is important to sufficiently understand the technology before buying.

Use the comprehensive learning resources of RP Photonics:

encyclopedia article cameras photodetectors

If you need personal help, contact RP Photonics to get technical consultancy.

2. Define your requirements

It is essential to fully understand and clearly define your requirements before you buy.

We recommend that you develop a list of clear specifications according to your specific needs, against which you can later check the suitability of found product offers:

To help you, we have already listed some aspects we recommend you consider when buying cameras. Of course, there may be other aspects that are relevant to your specific case.

This list is for your own preparation, and can later (possibly in modified form) be used for quotation requests to suppliers.

Otherwise, you will need to talk to your technical colleagues.

If you cannot sufficiently clarify your requirements, you may want to get technical consultancy from RP Photonics.

You find these buttons in the supplier list below or under "3. Find suitable suppliers".

3. Find suitable suppliers

We suggest three steps:

  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for cameras. Use the checkboxes to mark possibly suitable suppliers.
  • The selected suppliers will appear below this list, along with your list of specifications. You can then indicate which specifications they meet according to your research. (You should finalize your specifications before doing this.)
  • Based on the results, you can finally choose a supplier that is hopefully a good enough fit.

Selected suppliers:

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Decision

The most suitable supplier you found:

Comments, e.g. reasons for your choice, or things which still need to be checked:

Suppliers for Cameras

118 suppliers for cameras are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 3 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

Suppliers with Advertising Package

presenting their product descriptions

The Future Depends on Optics

Edmund Optics
101 East Gloucester Pike
Barrington, NJ 08007
United States
Profile page  Website  

See us at OPIE 25 in Pacifico Yokohama, Japan, April 23–25 (booth F-32), SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing in Orlando (FL), USA, April 13–17 (booth 917), CLEO 25 in Long Beach (CA), USA, May 4–9 (booth 317), Automate 25 in Detroit (MI), USA, May 12–15 (booth 4400) and SPS Italia in Parma, Italy, May 13–15 (hall 5, booth 055)!

cameras

Edmund Optics offers a wide range of analog and digital cameras designed for a variety of imaging applications, including video microscopy or industrial use. Cameras use a wide range of video outputs to display an image on a monitor. Digital cameras are available with a variety of digital interfaces, such as USB 2.0, USB 3.0, FireWire.a, FireWire.b, Gigabit Ethernet, or Camera Link® to ensure maximum compatibility with any number of applications’ needs. A selection of camera accessories is also available including mounting adapters, capture cards, or cables.

Product-specific web page
Hamamatsu Photonics Europe
Arzbergerstr. 10
82211 Herrsching
Germany
Profile page  Website  
cameras

Hamamatsu Photonics cameras are designed to deliver beautiful and reliably quantitative images even in the most demanding of applications.

Product-specific web page

Partners for accuracy

Gentec Electro-Optics, Inc.
445 St-Jean-Baptiste, Suite 160
Quebec, QC
Canada G2E 5N7
cameras

Gentec Electro-Optics offers a variety of CMOS camera-based beam profilers, covering wavelength ranges from the ultraviolet to the infrared (with a phosphor coating). We also have a device for large laser beams, containing a fiber-optic taper.

See also our overview on laser beam diagnostics.

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Other Suppliers

AFL
United States
Allied Scientific Pro
Canada
Profile page  Website  
Allied Vision Technologies GmbH
Germany
ams AG
Austria
Andor Technology
United Kingdom
Aven Inc.
United States
Axiom Optics
United States
B & H Foto & Electronics Corp.
United States
Basler AG
Germany
BaySpec Inc.
United States
BeamQ Lasers
United States
Profile page  Website  
Bodkin Design & Engineering
United States
Profile page  Website  
Bresser GmbH
Germany
Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
Germany
Chromasens GmbH
Germany
CINOGY Technologies GmbH
Germany
Collins Aerospace
United States
Couriertronics
United States
Profile page  Website  
CPG Optics
China
Data Optics Inc.
United States
Delta Photonics
Canada
DRS Technologies
United States
DXG Ltd.
Korea
Profile page  Website  
e-con Systems, Inc
United States
Profile page  Website  
ELUXI Ltd.
United Kingdom
Profile page  Website  
Emberion
Finland
Emergent Vision Technologies, Inc.
Canada
EuroLase
Feinwerkoptik Zünd AG
Switzerland
Finger Lakes Instrumentation
United States
Profile page  Website  
First Sensor AG
Germany
FISBA AG
Switzerland
Profile page  Website  
FLIR Systems GmbH
Germany
FOBA Laser Marking + Engraving Solutions | ALLTEC Angewandte Laserlicht Technologie GmbH
Germany
FRAMOS GmbH
Germany
GMP SA, Büro Zürich
Switzerland
GreenOptics Inc.
South Korea
Haas Laser Technologies, Inc.
United States
HANSENTEK
Canada
Heliotis AG
Switzerland
Profile page  Website  
HORIBA Scientific
United States
IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH
Germany
IL Photonics
Israel
Profile page  Website  
Imperx, Inc.
United States
ix Cameras
United Kingdom
Jenoptik Optical Systems GmbH
Germany
JG International
China
Kingfisher International
Australia
Profile page  Website  
Lahat Technologies Ltd
Israel
Profile page  Website  
Laser 2000 GmbH
Germany
Profile page  Website  
Laserand, Inc.
Canada
LaVision GmbH
Germany
Level Five Supplies
United Kingdom
LUCID Vision Labs, Inc.
Canada
Lumencor
United States
Lytid SAS
France
Profile page  Website  
MAPIR
United States
Mega Speed Corporation
Canada
Profile page  Website  
Metrolux
Germany
Motion Engineering
United States
MoviTHERM
United States
Profile page  Website  
Nanyang Running Optical & Electronic
China
Profile page  Website  
Navitar Inc.
United States
New Age Instruments & Materials
India
New Imaging Technologies (NIT)
France
NorPix, Inc.
Canada
Profile page  Website  
Nüvü Cameras
Canada
Oelabs Inc.
China
Profile page  Website  
Olympus Corporation of the Americas
United States
Ophir Optronics Solutions Ltd.
Israel
OPTIGER
China
Profile page  Website  
OPTIX-BD Optische Präzisionselemente GmbH Pistoriusstraße 6A
Germany
Opton Laser International
France
Profile page  Website  
Optris
Germany
Photek
United Kingdom
Photon etc. Inc.
Canada
Profile page  Website  
Photon Force Ltd.
United Kingdom
Photon Lines Ltd.
United Kingdom
Photonic Science
United Kingdom
Photron USA, Inc.
United States
Pixelink
Canada
Profile page  Website  
Polytec GmbH
Germany
Princeton Instruments
United States
Pro-Lite Technology Ltd
United Kingdom
Profile page  Website  
Prolog Optics
Israel
QuantumDesign Europe GmbH
Germany
Radiant Vision Systems Global HQ
United States
Profile page  Website  
Raptor Photonics
United Kingdom
Rauscher GmbH
Germany
Ricoh Imaging Company, Ltd.
Japan
SAL Engineering
Italy
Sensors Unlimited Inc.
United States
Sierra-Olympic Technologies Inc.
United States
SILIOS Technologies
France
SOL Instruments Ltd.
Belarus
Profile page  Website  
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
Japan
Spectral Devices Inc.
Canada N6G 4X
SPOT Imaging Solutions
United States
Stanford Computer Optics, Inc
United States
SVS-VISTEK GmbH
Germany
Sydor Instruments LLC
United States
Profile page  Website  
Teledyne DALSA Headquarters
Canada
Profile page  Website  
Teledyne Lumenera
Canada
Telops
Canada
Tetracam
United States
The Imaging Source Europe GmbH
Germany
Tokyo Instruments, Inc.
Japan
Torrent Photonics LLC
United States
Profile page  Website  
Videology Industrial-Grade Cameras
United States
Vision Components
Germany
VOSCOM Technologies Co. Ltd.
China
Profile page  Website  
Wavelength Opto-Electronic (S) Pte Ltd
Singapore
WLoptical Co., Ltd.
China
Xenics nv
Belgium
Profile page  Website  
XIMEA GmbH
Germany

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