System information

MX Cameras
3-2 Vicon MX Hardware System Reference
All cameras are high-quality devices, fitted with sensitive solid-state
sensors. Vicon Motion Systems subjects its cameras to stringent
checks for linearity, sensitivity, and absence of jitter.
All MX cameras provide high-speed and low-latency motion capture.
You can combine the different types of MX camera within a single
Vicon MX system to meet your application requirements for resolution
and/or coverage. The MX40+ and MX40 cameras offer the highest
resolution of the MX cameras. The MX3+ and MX3 cameras can
provide higher camera counts within a fixed budget, giving increased
coverage.
Each MX camera is programmed with firmware to control its operation
and enable it to perform its own onboard grayscale processing. As all
MX cameras use the same firmware, a mixture of cameras with
different image sensors can be connected to and run on the same
Vicon MX system. Vicon MX automatically recognizes cameras and
their relevant characteristics when they are plugged in. Vicon MX’s
distributed architecture enables the camera software to be updated
across the system network.
Table 3-1 illustrates the performance of each MX camera type.
Table 3-1: MX camera performance
Performance
MX40+ /
MX40
MX20+
MX13+ /
MX13
MX3+ /
MX3
Resolution (pixels) 2352 H x
1728 V
1600 H x
1280 V
1280 H x
1024 V
659 H x
494 V
Maximum Frame
Rate (fps) at full
resolution
160 219 482 242
Aspect Ratio 4:3 5:4 5:4 4:3
Sensor Size
(Megapixels)
4 2 1.3 0.3
Sensor size (mm) 16.5 h x
12.1 v
11.20 h x
8.96 v
15.4 h x
12.3 v
6.5 h x
4.9 v
Shuttered No No Yes Yes
Sensor Type CMOS CMOS CMOS CMOS
VGA Monitor Mode 85.1 kHz h x
48 Hz v
Not Available 60 kHz h x
50 Hz v
60 kHz h x
100 Hz v
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