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Telecentric<br />

FIGURE 2.26 Traditional vs. telecentric lens systems.<br />

several other brands of lenses and machine vision components) can be found at the<br />

Adept Electronic Solutions Web site: (http://www.adept.net.au).<br />

2.3.5 NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS LENS PARTNERS<br />

National Instruments has several lens partners that have been selected due to their<br />

wide range of quality lens systems designed to assist you in completing a vision<br />

system. These partners include Edmund Industrial Optics (http://www.edmundoptics.com),<br />

Navitar (http://www.navitar.com), InÞnity Photo-Optical<br />

(http://www.inÞnity-usa.com) and Graftek Imaging (http://www.graftek.com).<br />

Graftek Imaging’s Web site has a “lens selector.” You can specify lens parameters,<br />

and it will not only Þnd all possible matches within their product range, but also<br />

display possible compatible products for comparison (Figure 2.27).<br />

FIGURE 2.27 The Graftek lens selector Website.<br />

2.4 LIGHTING<br />

Lighting is an important, yet often overlooked facet of image acquisition — lighting<br />

can make or break your system. Some system integrators have been known to<br />

consider the industrial lighting solution a low-priority task, to be quickly decided

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