Controlling CCD camera with labview

[safrose]

Hello,

I have a liquid nitrogen colled catalina camera from teledyne scientific imaging. Can I control it with labview for taking images?

[Bob_Schor]

You should ask the company, or read the manual that comes with the camera.  My guess is that the company provides its own software that they want you to use.  Some cameras, particularly those that conform to the GenICam standard, can be used with LabVIEW's IMAQdx functions, but it might not be easy to interface ...

Bob Schor

[cbutcher]

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@safrose wrote:

I have a liquid nitrogen colled catalina camera from teledyne scientific imaging. Can I control it with labview for taking images?

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Can you? Almost certainly...

Can you with reasonable effort/simplicity? As Bob_Schor said, read the manual/search the manufacturer's website and see if they have any

a) drivers (LabVIEW or C being your best bets, .NET/C# or COM also being workable)

or b) communication documents specifying how the camera interacts with commands and transfers data.

With either of those, it becomes much simpler (in the case that you don't have those, I'd suggest contacting the company and asking - they might be kind and send you something, even if it's private and you can't share it - this recently happened to me for a system I'm working with).

If you can get a LabVIEW driver, then your process becomes basically just using LabVIEW - drop the appropriate VIs into your own code and happily acquire whichever images you want, controlling whichever parameters you need.

If you can get a C driver, you want to use the accompanying documentation (hopefully that also exists!) and the Call Library Function node (Connectivity > Libraries and Executables).

For .NET (including C#), there are the .NET nodes on the Connectivity > .NET palette, and for COM you can use the ActiveX palette, also under Connectivity.