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Looking for a USB camera with small field of view / high zoom

asked 2012-07-04 01:28:38 -0500

NsN
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updated 2014-01-28 17:12:54 -0500

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I'm looking for a camera for computer vision that has a FOV of about 11°. To facilitate the design, it would be great if it could connect directly via USB to a computer running ROS.

However all the webcams I'm looking at have a FOV of 70°-120° and all the more advanced cameras either only have analog live output or firewire. I would like to avoid Firewire, since almost no small PC still suppports it.

Does anybody know of a usb camera with a small fov, exchangeable optics or hardware zoom?

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answered 2012-07-04 06:53:52 -0500

mjcarroll

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I think that you may have good luck with the Point Grey Firefly MV. It's a fairly high quality camera, and it has exchangeable optics, using the CS or C mount for cameras.

I think that the CS mount lenses should be available from many places, as it is frequently used with security cameras.

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You could also look at the Point Grey Chameleon USB 2.0 cameras: http://www.ptgrey.com/products/chameleon/chameleon_usb_camera.asp . Note that those Point Grey USB cameras have good ROS camera driver support using the camera1394 driver, as they expose IIDC (firewire) camera interfaces over USB.

Eric Perko ( 2012-07-04 09:43:30 -0500 )edit

Those look great! Manual focus might be a bit annoying, but as long as we are flying at a set altitude, and considering the small sensor this should be easy to preset.

NsN ( 2012-07-05 10:34:09 -0500 )edit

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