Point Grey Redefines Price Performance, Debuts Revolutionary New
Blackfly™ and Grasshopper®3 Camera Lines at VISION 2012
PointGrey Vision Booth
September 27, 2012
September 27, 2012 – Richmond, BC, Canada – Point Grey, one of the world's leading and most innovative
providers of high performance digital cameras for industrial, bioscience, traffic, and GIS applications, will showcase
more "Innovations in Imaging" at the upcoming VISION 2012 exhibition in Stuttgart, Germany.
At VISION Point Grey will show many popular existing FireWire, GigE Vision, and USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 products, as
well as introduce—and demonstrate live—two exciting new camera lines: the cost-effective Blackfly™; and the
high-performance Grasshopper®3. Drawing on today’s leading digital interface technologies—GigE Vision and
USB3 Vision—and the latest in CCD and CMOS image sensors, these new camera families offer powerful, easy-touse,
and cost-effective alternatives to existing analog, Camera Link, and dual GigE LAG solutions.
Get More for Less with Blackfly™
The all-new Blackfly camera line
combines Power over Ethernet, industry-leading affordability, and a host of
unique features into the world’s smallest GigE Vision camera. Like it’s cousin the Flea3, the Blackfly measures just
29 x 29 x 30 mm in size and offers uncompromising value. Every Blackfly model comes packed with functionality
designed to maximize performance and reliability, including a 32 MByte frame buffer; LED status indicators; and an
on-camera image processing pipeline that provides color interpolation, gamma, and lookup table functionality. The
first available model uses a 1.3 MP global shutter CMOS sensor capable of running at 60 FPS, and is competitively
priced at just $395 (single quantity).
Grasshopper®3 Combines USB3 and CCD
Proving once again Point Grey’s innovation leadership, the new
Grasshopper3
camera line combines the benefits
of CCD with the affordability and data throughput of USB 3.0. The Grasshopper3’s FPGA and frame buffer-based
architecture provides optimal reliability, a rich set of features, and a full image processing pipeline. The first
available model uses the new Sony ICX687 2.8 MP CCD and will be capable of outputting full resolution 24-bit
images at 25 FPS. The ICX687 sensor supports high definition (HD) 1080p30 imaging and uses Sony’s EXview HAD
CCD II™ technology—a further evolved version of the well-known EXview HAD CCD™ technology—to improve
quantum efficiency, reduce smear, and increase sensitivity, including into the near infrared.
Redefining “Price-Performance”
Declining prices is a fact of life in today’s machine vision market. But a corresponding decline in functionality,
features, and performance shouldn’t have to be. Vladimir Tucakov, Point Grey’s Director of Business Development,
will give a presentation at Industrial Vision Days titled, "Next-Generation Cameras Deliver Revolutionary Price-
Performance”. In this presentation Mr. Tucakov will address the issue of price versus performance and discuss how
Blackfly and Grasshopper3 will meet the needs of vision system designers who want cameras with more pixels, faster
frame rates, and superior reliability, and at a fraction of the price they paid two years ago. The presentation
will be held on Tues, November 6th, 10:30am – 11:00am.
Please visit Point Grey at Booth #1B42.