Lighting Tips
Creating a Good
Image
A
v4.1.3, April 2012 Visionscape FrontRunner™ User’s Manual A-17
Lighting provides a clear image that is not too bright or too dark and that
enables the VS-1 Smart Camera to identify the desired features and
characteristics. Refer to Table A–3 for additional lighting information.
TABLE A–3. Additional Lighting Information
Lighting Type Hardware Required Representative Applications
EVEN - FRONT (DIFFUSED)
Band Fluorescent Tube -
Straight or Circular
Simplest general purpose lighting. Always
try first.
Zone Diffuser Plate or
Reflecting Panel
DOAL
CDI
SCDI
Detect broken microscope slides.
POINT - FRONT
Point Source Fiberlight or Incandescent
DOAL
CDI
SCDI
Use where high intensity lighting is required
on small area. Also for shadow fill-in and
general lighting touch-up.
Multiple Point
Sources
Multiple Fiberlights or
Incandescents
DOAL
CDI
SCDI
Symmerical high-intensity illumination of
microscopic fields-of-view such as
electronic components.
EVEN - BACK
Backlighting Light Box or Uniform
Surface
Dimensioning highly reflective parts,
inspecting contours of parts with highly
variable surfaces.
STRUCTURED
On-Axis DOAL
Beam - Splitter
See flat dark reflective surfaces. Front-light
deep holes.
Light Line Laser with Cylinder Lens Relative height measurements of surfaces.
Non-contact gaging.
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