I'm acquiring image data from a digital line scan camera in conjuntion with an IMAQ board. It doesn't take more than a few hundereds milli-seconds to acquire just one image (single shot). But when I try to perform buffered acquisition, it takes almost 1 second to get the first image. Is it normal that it takes longer to get the first image in a buffer than to get subsequent images? I couldn't really pinpoint which VI took the longest to execute but IMAQ Start.vi and IMAQ Configure List.vi seemed to take significantly longer than others. Is there a way around to shorten time to acquire the first image? Even thought it's just one second, it's considered very long in the production test.
On a side note, it didn't take that long when I used an alalog area scan camera. First, I thought it has to do with the image size, but it still took almost the same amount of time even after changing the window size (of the digital line scan camera) down to one-tenth.
