1 The CMOS color camera SC100 Specifications
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1.2 Specifications
Properties of
the SC100
The SC100 is a CMOS color camera with a very high resolution used for biomedical
and material sciences applications. It was specially developed for acquisitions using
light microscopy, is of a compact design and can be connected to all of the prevalent
types of light microscope by a C-mount. The ICC profile technology guarantees an
optimal color mapping.
Binning modes
The SC100 has two binning modes. In the binning mode, the camera's CMOS
sensor combines neighboring pixels into pixel blocks. This results in a higher sensi-
tivity and a shortened processing time but also a lower resolution.
* Binning 4x is technically the same as binning 2x with an additional "subsampling".
With "subsampling" the half of the image’s pixel is ignored. As a consequence the
sensitivity of both binning modes does not differ very much. The advantage of the
"Binning 4x" mode is it's high frame rate.
Technical data SC100
Chip type CMOS
Chip size Typ 1/2,3 Inch
Effective area (width x height) 6.12 mm x 4.59 mm
Pixel size 1.67 µm x 1.67 µm
Maximum resolution 3840 pixels x 2748 pixels
Image type 24-bit color image (RGB)
Read-out speed 5 – 36 MHz
Interface USB 2.0
Camera mount Standard C-Mount
Binning Resolution Max. frame rate Exposure times
Maximum resolution 3840 x 2748 pixels 3.2 images per second 0.34 ms - 14.6 s
Binning 2x 1920 x 1374 pixels 12 images per second 0.19 ms - 3.6 s
Binning 4x* 960 x 686 pixels 42.5 images per second 0.12 ms - 3.4 s