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General Information - Binning (BinningHorizontal / BinningVertical)
On digital cameras, you can find several operations for progressing sensitivity. One of them is
the so-called Binning. Here, the charge carriers of neighboring pixels are aggregated. By using
this operation, the progression in sensitivity is coupled to a reduction in resolution. Higher sensi-
tivity enables shorter exposure times.
Baumer cameras support three types of Binning - vertical, horizontal and bidirectional.
In unidirectional Binning, vertically or horizontally neighboring pixels are clustered and reported
to the software as a single "superpixel".
In bidirectional Binning, a square of neighboring pixels is clustered.
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Deviations in brightness after Binning can be corrected with function Brightness Correction.
Monochrome Binning
Binning Illustration Output
without
Full frame image, no binning of
pixels.
1x2
Vertical binning causes a verti-
cally compressed image with
doubled brightness.
2x1
Horizontal binning causes a
horizontally compressed image
with doubled brightness.
2x2
Bidirectional binning causes
both a horizontally and verti-
cally compressed image with
quadruple brightness.