Dear Paul,
we do manufacture special scanners for museum/library www.metis-digital.com. I write most of the software in Labview, sometimes using NI-IMAQ and NI Vision and sometime using a special set of imaging VI which I wrote in C++ during several years.
We do have two lines of products (and software).
A) High cost Professional planetary scanner up to the 2A0 format. They integrate our own designed camera-link camera and we use a NI-1426 frame grabber and NI vision software (for which we have to purchase a license for every run-time we distribute). I anyway also use some of my imaging VI here because they are generally faster compared to NI. Futhermore some NI imaging VIs are buggy and nobody noticed since Labview 7.11 !
B) Low cost Semi-professional planetary scanner up to the A1 format based on a Canon DLSR camera. I had to write most of the imaging library used in this scanner/software because we cannot add the NI Vision RUN-Time cost to the scanner price. Still use some imaging VI from the available ones in Labview (Vision Common resources). So, no NI-IMAQ or Vision here, and the integration of the Canon camera into Labview was done using a third part ActiveX module (TCamRemote).
We want now to integrate a Nikon camera into the existing line of scanners (B). But we cannot find a Labview compatible driver or ActiveX or .NET wrapper of the Nikon SDK. I guess we just have to write our own wrapper...
Why did you ask ? Do you have any idea that could help us integrating the Nikon SDK (not just file transfer but the whole functionality of course) ?
Best regards
Massimo Colagrande
