The world's most versatile digital cameras, the Pixera Professional and
Pixera Personal are pure 100% digital 1.2 million pixel cameras that go beyond simple
electronic snapshot photography. Our unique optical DiRactor (Diaphragm Refractor)
and software image processing technology enable you to capture and share high-resolution
documents and pictures.
The Pixera Professional features a variable-focus C-mount
lens that can focus at object as close as 1" from the lens with a simple repro-stand
using the tripod screw mount.
The Pixera
Personal has a fixed-focus built-in lens that focuses at 8 inches for easy flat-art
capturing from its stand/carrying case, or simply mount it on a tripod for even more
versatility.
Use them with your desktop computer (PCI interface). Capture motion video and
high-resolution images for anything you create on your computer. Click the shutter and its on your hard disk within seconds. Communicate
your ideas, in person by using compatible video conferencing software.
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What Is The Pixera Visual Communication System?
What are the
Pixera Visual Communication Suite applications?
What does Pixera Video for Windows
Provide?
Does
the Pixera Camera system support the TWAIN interface or Photoshop Plug-ins?
How can the Pixera
Visual Communication System be used?
How do Pixera Cameras
differ from competitors cameras?
What is
the difference between Pixera Professional and Pixera Personal?
Is
the Pixera Camera System more difficult to use than a conventional camera?
Is
there a way to avoid connecting a computer to the Pixera Camera to take pictures?
Do I
need a video capture card/frame grabber to use the Pixera Camera?
How is the Pixera Camera System
powered?
How long is the interface cable?
What are the
system requirements to use the Pixera Camera System?
How
does the Pixera Camera achieve a one-million-pixel resolution from a 1/3" CCD?
What is the pixel size?
What is the image size of the CCD?
What is the image resolution of
the CCD chip?
What is the depth of field?
What is the ASA
rating for the camera at normal exposure?
What is the dynamic
range of the Pixera Digital Camera?
What is The Pixera Camera
system's sensitivity?
What light sources
can be used with Pixera's Digital Camera?
Does the Pixera Camera have a
built-in flash?
Can
the Pixera Camera capture 24-bit color images even if the display (monitor) only supports
grayscale?
Can
the Pixera Camera capture an image that has better resolution than the display?
How
is white balance set? Is manual override for exposure and color balance available?
How long does it take to capture an
image?
Where are the digital images stored?
What are optimum printing
sizes for captured images?
How
big is the image area for an image taken at minimum focusing distance using the Pixera
Personal and using the Pixera Professional camera?
How big is the image file for each
picture?
What type of image
compression does the camera use?
What
is the resolution of 4"x5" and 8"x10" prints, in pixels per inch
(ppi)?
What
is the advantage of a through-the-lens viewfinder versus an optical viewfinder?
What
Twain Compliant Software Programs is the Pixera Camera Compatible With?
What Macintosh Programs
is the Pixera Compatible With?
How long is the warranty period?
How
does Pixera handle installation, service and periodic upgrades of the Pixera Camera
System?
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What Is
The Pixera Visual Communication System?
The Pixera Visual Communication System is the fastest and easiest
tool to capture images to your computer. The Pixera Visual Communication System comes in
two models, the Pixera Personal and the Pixera Professional.
THE PIXERA PERSONAL
- Fixed-focus lens
- For general business and personal use
- PCI Interface
- Supports Windows and MacOS
THE PIXERA PROFESSIONAL
- Flexibility of interchangable C-Mount lenses
- Image capture through a scientific instrument such as a microscope.
- For professional and technical users
- PCI Interface
- Supports Windows and MacOS
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What are the Pixera
Visual Communication Suite applications?
Pixera Visual Communication Suite currently provides three primary
applications:
- Pixera Studio
- Pixera Album
- Pixera Motion
Pixera Studio provides the following features:
• Image acquisition
• Opening and viewing multiple images
• Zoom in and Zoom out windows
• Making marquee and lasso selections
• Extending/reducing selection
• Cut and paste a selection
• Selecting colors using eyedropper (Windows 95 only)
• Pasting selections
• Manipulating images:
• Previewing and applying effects to more than one image
• Rotating, flipping, cropping, and resizing an image
• Making color corrections:
• Previewing before and after
• Converting an image to grayscale
• Adjusting brightness/contrast, gamma, hue/saturation
• Adjusting color balance
• Oil painting
• Using filters to modify images
• Blur, sharpen, mosaic, posterize, and emboss
• Image file formats (JPEG, TIFF, PICT, BMP)
TWAIN
Manual auto-white balance
Pixera Album provides the following features:
• Organizing media files
• Viewing, creating, opening, deleting an album
• Viewing media file thumbnails
• Adding/deleting media files to/from album
• Moving, copying media files
• Query/filtering media files
• Changing a media file's properties
• Drag and drop between applications
• Printing more than one image per page
Pixera Motion provides the following features:
• Record, inspect, playback and save a video-clip or time framed
sequence
• Send video mail
• Record audio with a video capture
• Schedule a continuous timed recording
• Controlled stop motion/one frame per click
• Cut individual frame and paste into Pixera Studio
• Make color corrections
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What are the Pixera
Visual Communication Suite applications?
The motion video feature is available in AVI format to run on
Windows 95 and in QuickTime format under Macintosh.
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What does
Pixera Video for Windows Provide?
Pixera Video for Windows Provides:
Video conferencing capability at up to 10 frames per second live
motion
Compatible with:
• Microsoft NetMeeting 2.0 (Win95)
• White Pine Enhanced CU-SeeMee 2.0 (Mac)
• SmithMicro Audio Vision 2.0 and VideoLink NET 1.0 (Win95)
• VocalTech Internet Phone 4.0 (Win95)
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Does
the Pixera Camera system support the TWAIN interface or Photoshop Plug-ins?
Yes, the Pixera Camera system currently supports TWAIN on Windows 95
and Windows NT. Macintosh has both VDIG and Adobe Photoshop plug-ins available.
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How
can the Pixera Visual Communication System be used?
Pixera's Visual Communication System can be used in a wide range of
applications, including:
- Video Conferencing: communicate with associates/colleagues
face-to-face when you are physically miles away
- Web/multimedia authoring: capture an image and put it up on a web
page instantly
- Desktop publishing: capture images and incorporate them into
presentations, making news letters, brochures, and reports, etc
- Medical/Industrial/Scientific imaging: capture images through a
microscope or telescope, or close-up with a variety of different C-Mount lenses
- Law enforcement/ID imaging: take mug shots, fingerprint samples or
collect evidence at a crime scene
- Mobile applications: capture an image and send it back to your office
via e-mail in seconds
- Video stills: capture images to be manipulated, enhanced, or printed
- Image database: capture images and store them for later retrieval in
Pixera Album, an image database management application
- Time lapse motion capture: set the viewfinder to record moving images
and capture them unattended on a time sequence basis, i.e. - every 60 seconds
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How
do Pixera Cameras differ from competitors cameras?
- Pixera offers 1.2 million pixels which provides superior image
resolution at a fraction of the cost of other systems
- Three modes with three different viewfinder window sizes to preview
image: 640 x 480, 320 x 240, 160 x 120
- Through-the-lens motion viewfinder-"what you see is what you
get". Capture a picture perfect image the first time
- Pixera camera system's 24 bit color 2-D or 3-D Image with RGB color
capability approaches the viewing quality found only in higher priced two- or three-CCD
camera systems
- Powerful bundled software suites for image enhancement and management
at no additional charge
- Capture still or moving images
- Multi-platform system capability - Win95, WinNT and Mac software
included
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What is the
difference between Pixera Professional and Pixera Personal?
The optical block in the Pixera Professional camera is engineered
differently in order to accomplish the variable focus function. This allows use of
different C-Mount lenses which make the camera more versitile for different applications.
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Is
the Pixera Camera System more difficult to use than a conventional camera?
The Pixera Camera System is just as easy to use as a conventional
point-and-shoot camera. The Pixera Camera lets you capture any digital image with just the
press of a button. Simply open the viewfinder and frame the subject in the viewfinder
window. Click the image capture button and the camera captures the image exactly as it
appears in the viewfinder.
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Is
there a way to avoid connecting a computer to the Pixera Camera to take pictures?
No. The Pixera Camera is a tethered unit. It has to be connected to
a computer at all times. The advantage of a tethered unit is that you can preview the
image, then capture it as you see through the viewfinder window. In addition, it can
capture high resolution images that cannot fit on a flash memory card.
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Do I need a
video capture card/frame grabber to use the Pixera Camera?
No. Both the Professional and Personal comes with its own PCI card. The Pixera Camera itself generates separate Red, Green, and Blue information
that yields much higher quality color than the chrominance/luminance information produced
by normal video cameras. This higher color quality is in addition to the already improved
resolution possible with the Pixera Camera.
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How is the Pixera
Camera System powered?
The Pixera Camera unit uses the power of its host computer system.
It requires only 1.2W of power. This low power consumption makes the camera system ideal
for mobile applications.
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How long is the interface
cable?
Pixera's PCI (Desktop) interface cable is 10 feet long. An additional 30' PCI cable is available
separately for the PCI Interface camera only.
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What are the
system requirements to use the Pixera Camera System?
System requirements for Windows 95 and Windows NT platforms are
Pentium processor and 24MB RAM (32MB recommended). For the Macintosh platform: PowerPC or
higher processor, 24MB RAM (32MB strongly recommended) and System 7.5.3 or higher.
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How
does the Pixera Camera achieve a one-million-pixel resolution from a 1/3" CCD?
Pixera camera achieves the one million pixel resolution through its
innovative, patented optical image capture mechanism. The Pixera camera captures four
frames of the image and overlays them, increasing the resolution of the image to four
times the resolution of the CCD chip (250,000 pixels).
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What is the pixel size?
The pixel size of the CCD is 9.6(m (H) x 7.5 (m (V).
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What is the image size
of the CCD?
The image size of the 1/3" CCD is 4.9mm (H) x 3.7mm (V).
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What is the
image resolution of the CCD chip?
The resolution of the CCD chip is 516x492 pixels.
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What is the depth of field?
The depth of field of Pixera Personal model with the standard lens
provided is 1(1/2 inch. The depth of field for the C-Mount Pixera Professional model
depends on the lens used. Using a lens with a built-in iris will also allow the depth of
field to be adjustable.
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What
is the ASA rating for the camera at normal exposure?
The ASA rating of Pixera digital camera is ASA 100.
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What
is the dynamic range of the Pixera Digital Camera?
The dynamic range of the Pixera Camera system is 3x signal to noise.
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What is
The Pixera Camera system's sensitivity?
ISO100 equivalency.
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What light sources can
be used with Pixera's Digital Camera?
Any light source can be used. It
functions best under general
lighting conditions.
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Does the
Pixera Camera have a built-in flash?
No. The Pixera Camera provides high light sensitivity and a wide range
of shutter speeds. This means that the Pixera Camera can take good quality pictures in
poor lighting conditions. A flash will not be necessary for most lighting conditions.
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Can
the Pixera Camera capture 24-bit color images even if the display (monitor) only supports
grayscale?
Yes. The images just won't display as well on a system that does not
have high color (16-bit) or true color (24-bit) display. They can be printed and saved as
24-bit color images, however.
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Can
the Pixera Camera capture an image that has better resolution than the display?
Yes. The Pixera Camera will capture an image at the resolution you
choose regardless of the resolution the monitor can display.
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How
is white balance set? Is manual override for exposure and color balance available?
Auto-white balance is set by default or it may be set in an off
position prior to image capture. Auto-white balance allows the color balance to be
adjusted automatically under varying lighting conditions. QuickTime VR and microscopy
users may wish to use our manual override variable white balance feature in order to
preserve color contrast and balance across a sequence of captures. Semi-Auto white balance
is a new feature that allos the user to callibrate the white balance for different
lighting conditions.
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How long does
it take to capture an image?
On the Windows 95 platform with a Pentium 200 system, the image
capture and process time of a high resolution image is about 5-7 seconds. On the Macintosh
platform, the image capture and process time of a high resolution image is 5-10 seconds.
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Where are the digital
images stored?
The images are stored directly on the host PC's hard disk for easy
access. The number of images stored is limited only by the host PC's hard disk space and
the size of the image files. A high resolution image at 1280x1024 dpi consumes 3.7MB of
memory, but can be reduced by an average of 90% through .JPEG compression, which is
supported by Pixera.
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What
are optimum printing sizes for captured images?
The camera's image resolution can be up to 1260x960 pixels (1280 x
1024 on Macintosh) providing acceptable print size for pictures up to 5.5"x
4.5".
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How
big is the image area for an image taken at minimum focusing distance using the Pixera
Personal and using the Pixera Professional camera?
Using the Pixera Personal camera, the image area is 3"x4"
with the minimum focusing distance of 8 inches. The image area is 1.1"x1.7"
using the 1 inch minimum focusing distance with the Pixera Professional model.
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How big is the
image file for each picture?
The size of an image file depends on the resolution the image was
taken with. The maximum uncompressed image size is 3.7MB, at 1260 x 960 pixels resolution
(Windows platform). However, when compressed using .JPEG file format, the file size of a
high resolution image is between 100k to 200k on a Windows platform and between 50k to
300k on a Macintosh platform.
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What
type of image compression does the camera use?
The camera uses the industry-standard, adjustible JPEG compression.
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What
is the resolution of 4"x5" and 8"x10" prints, in pixels per inch
(ppi)?
The resolution of a 4"x5" print is 250x200 dpi. The
resolution of a 8"x10" print is 125x100 dpi.
Because the Pixera camera provides 1.2 million pixel resolution
(1260 x 960 under Windows), you can determine the image resolution in dpi (dots per inch),
simply by dividing 1000 by the dimension of your image. For a 4"x5" print, for
instance, the horizontal resolution in dpi is 1000/4 = 250 and the vertical resolution is
1000/5=200 dpi.
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What
is the advantage of a through-the-lens viewfinder versus an optical viewfinder?
A through-the-lens viewfinder enables an extremely accurate image
capture. This is often referred to as "what you see is what you get" (WYSIWYG).
It also allows for manual color correction of your photos. An optical viewfinder on the
other hand, may cause distortion.
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