products

Model 353 - please see Model 353 camera on Elphel Wiki

General Specifications

High resolution 3.2Mpix (2048x1536) 10-bit Megapixel CMOS image sensors (5MPix sensors coming soon)
High frame rate over a LAN connection:
12 fps at 2048x1536 resolution
27 fps at 1280x1024 resolution
90 fps at 640x480 resolution
Industry standard MJPEG and low-bandwidth Ogg Theora unicast/multicast streaming
Live-DVD included to get you started in minutes
Simple web based interface accessible from any browser
Direct Ethernet connection - camera can instantly work with computer running any operating system or upload data to a remote server using Internet connection
IEEE 802.3af compliant 48 VDC power supply through the LAN cable - camera can run over a single CAT-5 cable up to 100m from the powered switch
Auto-Exposure and White Balance

Hardware

100MHz 32-bit Axis ETRAX100LX CPU
64 MB SDRAM (32MB system +32MB Video)
16 MB flash memory
Xilinx Spartan®3 1000K gate reconfigurable FPGA for fast image precessing and compression - 8-10 billions of arithmetic operations per second.
42MPix/sec compression into JPEG/MJPEG and Ogg Theora without CPU overhead.
Low power consumption - 3W. 12VDC and 24VDC powered cameras available for battery operation (non-IEEE802.3af)
Compact size - 1.75"x1.75"x4.75" weighs 210 grams or 7.4 oz (without the lens)
Universal CS-mount makes it possible to use most of the CS and C mount lenses
Optional extension board available that provides external synchronization and RS232/422/485 serial interfaces, USB host coming soon
Gated intensified version is possible

Software

Embedded servers running on GNU/Linux provide images/video over LAN or the Internet
Scriptable client uploads images to the remote server using available Internet connection
Easy customizable AJAX-based user interface
Fail-safe software and hardware compression algorithms upgrades over the Internet
All the software comes with the GNU/GPL and is free to use, modify and re-distribute. Complete distribution sufficient to build all the embedded software and hardware FPGA code is available for download and also is included in the camera flash memory file system.