Point Grey high def 6.0 MP firewire camera

Point Grey has added new 6.0 megapixel models to its Grasshopper Express IEEE 1394b (FireWire-b) digital cameras series. Building on the company’s experience with Sony EXview HAD CCD II technology, the new Grasshopper Express GX-FW-60S6 uses the Sony ICX694 to deliver high resolution and extreme sensitivity in a compact and low-cost package. “The new Grasshopper Express 6 MP camera is especially useful in traffic applications, where imaging fast moving vehicles requires high sensitivity and minimal gain to
June 7, 2012 Read time: 2 mins
541 Point Grey has added new 6.0 megapixel models to its Grasshopper Express IEEE 1394b (FireWire-b) digital cameras series. Building on the company’s experience with 576 Sony EXview HAD CCD II technology, the new Grasshopper Express GX-FW-60S6 uses the Sony ICX694 to deliver high resolution and extreme sensitivity in a compact and low-cost package.

“The new Grasshopper Express 6 MP camera is especially useful in traffic applications, where imaging fast moving vehicles requires high sensitivity and minimal gain to eliminate motion blur and capture crisp images of license plates,” says Michael Gibbons, director of sales and marketing. “Also, the GX’s high near infrared response is ideal for tolling, speed and red light enforcement which relies on infrared light sources to illuminate the plate or driver without a bright visible flash which could be disturbing to motorists.”

Every Grasshopper Express camera is equipped with a tripod mounting bracket, on-board temperature and power sensors to monitor camera status, and Point Grey’s rich feature set. Also included with every camera is the FlyCapture SDK software library which provides a common control interface for all Point Grey cameras under both Windows and Linux. The Grasshopper Express camera utilizes the FireWire-b interface. The 800 Mbit/s of bandwidth delivers low latency, deterministic image transfer without CPU loading.
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