Information checklist

This archived page preserves the information checklist previously used for quotes, samples, evaluation kits and restricted documentation. No current contact channel is provided in this static build.

What to include

Four lines, and they change what comes back.

The feature and its size. The working distance and the coverage required. The pixels the processing needs across the feature. The environment — temperature, illumination, vibration.

A supplier given that answers specifically and frequently suggests something you had not considered — including, occasionally, that no module in the range fits, which is a useful answer a catalogue cannot give.

Data sheets

The archived site stated that camera-module data sheets were distributed under NDA and that EVK tools were supplied with evaluation kits; this build does not provide those materials or a request channel.

EVK tools are available after signing an NDA and purchasing an evaluation kit.

Before requesting information

The technical material on this site is generic and applies to any module from any supplier — and working through it produces the four lines above.

Deciding whether it fits

Start from what must be resolvable — the feature, its size, the working distance and the pixels the processing needs across it.

Then the lens calculation, which takes ten minutes and finds the real constraint before anything is ordered.

Then the filter, which follows from the illumination: infrared cut for visible colour work, dual band where an infrared illuminator is used at night, none for deliberate infrared imaging.

And the mounting, since one degree of tilt displaces the view by roughly 17 mm per metre — which makes mechanical tolerance an imaging specification.

What the documentation does not state

Anything absent from the data sheet is absent from this page too.

Nothing here is estimated or interpolated — which is the standing rule and the reason a thin page is thin.

Ask for what is missing. The information checklist shows what details matter, and where the answer is that a figure has never been characterised, that is itself informative.