Use this dialog box to make a variety of general camera settings. For example, you can mirror the acquired image or select a color table for it.
Note: Some of the settings are camera specific. For this reason, your camera's functionality can differ from what is described here.
Opening the dialog box
You can open this dialog box, for example via the camera control. In the Camera Control tool window's toolbar, click the Acquisition Settings button. Select the Camera > General entry in the tree view.
Description of the function groups
See also
Image type
Bit depth
Some cameras can acquire images of different image types. From the Bit depth list, select the type of image that you want to acquire with your camera. The image types differ basically in their depth of bit, i.e., the amount of intensity values that each pixel can adopt.
Which entries are available in the Bit depth list depends on your camera.
Mirror
Horizontal
Select the Horizontal check box to mirror the image horizontally during acquisition. The illustration shows left the source image and right the horizontally mirrored image.
Vertical
Select the Vertical check box to mirror the image vertically during acquisition. The illustration shows left the source image and right the vertically mirrored image.
Horizontal and Vertical
The two forms of mirroring can be combined with each other. The illustration shows left the source image and right the horizontally and vertically mirrored image.
Pseudo color
You can use color tables to have images displayed in color on your monitor. Then every intensity value in an image will be allotted a hue.
Using no pseudo colors
By default, when you acquire images, no pseudo color tables will be used. In this case, the Pseudo Color > Off option will be selected.
Use saturation indicator
Your software offers a special pseudo color table. Select the Use saturation indicator option to have all of the pixels with a low intensity value displayed in blue, and all of those with a high intensity value displayed in red. This pseudo color table is only relevant for the live-image. When you acquire this image, it will show all of the pixels back in their actual color, in the document group.
With this pseudo color table you can immediately see if the image is well illuminated. When there are both blue and red pixels in the image, the camera's complete dynamic range will be in use. If too many blue pixels can be seen, the image is underexposed. If too many red pixels can be seen, the image is overexposed.
Use pseudo color table for gray-value images
You can apply a color table at as early as the image acquisition. To do this, select the Use pseudo color table for grayscale images option.
You can color only the live-image, or only the acquired image, or both, with the pseudo color table you choose. To do so, select the one of the following entries For live only, For snapshot only or For live and snapshot from the list.
Selecting the pseudo color table
Click the Pseudo color... button to change the pseudo color table you have chosen, or to define a new one.
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