NI Recommended Camera, Lighting, and Optics Providers
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Complete Vision Component Providers
Below are several companies that are experts in machine vision and image processing. They specialize in accurately specifying and selling all of the components necessary to complete even the most challenging vision applications.
Worldwide
| Edmund Industrial Optics – (www.edmundoptics.com) From UV windows to fully integrated electronic imaging systems, Edmund Optics is single source for optical products and services. Edmund Optics offer more than your average vision component catalog. They augment their broad selection and deep inventories with express shipping options, OEM quantity discounts and the ability to provide custom design and manufacturing services. |
North America
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Graftek Imaging – (www.graftek.com) Graftek provides all the components of a machine vision system, including lighting optimized to an application, quality optical components, high resolution and high speed cameras, image acquisition hardware and image analysis software for Windows or real-time operating systems. |
France
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Alliance Vision – (www.alliancevision.com) Alliance Vision is one of the leading imaging product providers in France for machine vision and image analysis. |
Central Europe
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Qualimatest - (www.qmt.ch) Qualimatest is a supplier of material solutions for industrial vision, which supplements ist product range with those of other suppliers in order to offer customers the full gamut of components necessary for the realisation of their systems. |
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Polytec - (www.polytec.de) With more than 10 years experience in machine vision, Polytec has grown to one of the major suppliers for components and instruments in Europe. Today Polytec offers the full range of machine vision hardware: illumination, lenses, cameras, frame grabbers, Compact Vision Systems etc. These products perfectly fit to the National Instruments program, so you can easily build up your vision system with NI and us. |
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Laser 2000 - (www.laser2000.de) As a specialized distributor to the photonics market, Laser 2000 is committed to excellence in the quality of service and products that we provide, both to our suppliers and customers. Our experience and knowledge of both emerging and existing industries, matches the key technologies to the demand. A team of exceptional sales people, many qualified to PhD level, are easily accessible and have broad applications knowledge and an in-depth technical understanding of the products available. |
Selected Camera Providers
A list of all NI supported cameras can be found at www.ni.com/cameras
IEEE 1394 and GigE Vision Cameras
Allied Vision Technologies
Basler Vision Technologies
ISG
FLIR
Hamamatsu
Redlake
Point Grey Research
Prosilica
Sony

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Camera Link Cameras
| Atmel Basler Vision Technologies Cohu Dalsa DVC Fairchild Imaging Hamamatsu JAI Pulnix Photonfocus Sony |
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Analog Cameras
Cohu
FLIR
Sony
JAI Pulnix
Selected Optics and Lighting Providers
| Advanced Illumination Edmund Optics Siemens/Nerlite |
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