Hamamatsu Video Capture Library

[PaulNaP]

Hi,

I have a Hamamatsu Digital Camera (Orca C11440-10C) and a PCI Express frame grabber (X64 Xcelera-CL PX4) and I am trying to control image acquisition through LabVIEW.

I have downloaded and installed the Hamamatsu Video Capture Library (http://sales.hamamatsu.com/index.php?id=13200492) but have no idea how to get it up and running. Running the sample functions (e.g. camerainformation.vi) causes LabVIEW to crash. I think the problem could be that I haven’t specified the location of the camera. Do I need to do this or should the initialise_camera.vi sub-vi recognise it automatically? Here I should point out that the camera is connected properly and runs perfectly fine through the software that came with the camera (HCImage). Also, it is visible in MAX in the ‘Serial & Parallel’ section. See attached for screen snap-shot.

I am relatively new to LabVIEW but any advice would be great!

Paul

[toto26]

Hello,

Well your camera is a Camera Link model, this interface as a serial port built in, that's what you can see in MAX.

But this serial interface is only for sending settings to your camera. 

In order to interface your camera with LabVIEW, you will need to access you framegrabber.

Either with the set of functions provided by Hamamatsu, or, we can provide a library to do it, see here: http://www.alliancevision.eu/products/softwares-drivers/drivers/112

Regards

[merr]

I also am having problems with the api software and labview repeatedly crashes when I try to use it. Even a simple tm410 snap.vi crashes.