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Light ideas: technical tips
Here we offer tips and tricks about machine vision optics and lighting. This is a (mostly) "no sell" zone. We won't be pushing our products, just presenting technical advice that we hope will be useful.
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List of Services
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Light Ideas #1List Item 1
Isaac Newton, C-mount Lenses and You. A guide to calculating magnification, object distance, and image distance, especially with c-mount lenses.
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Light Ideas #2List Item 2
How Do I Make a Telecentric System. Sort of self-explained. Advice and equations for "rolling your own" telecentric lenses.
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Light Ideas #3List Item 3
Do White Bears Have Polar Eyes? Beginning notes in using polarizers for contrast enhancement.
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Light Ideas #4List Item 4
Magnification, f-number, and Depth of Field (DOF). Three related concepts with which every machine vision practitioner should be familiar.
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Light Ideas #5
Circular Polarizers for Low-Angle Reflection Reduction. One nice technique for reducing errors when back lighting shiny objects.