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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What Twain Compliant
Software Programs is the Pixera Camera Compatible
With?
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