What happens to a 12-bit image in LabVIEW/IMAQ Vision?

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I'm using the DALSA DALSTAR 1M30 camera, and we are building a cable for it, and have not yet got it up and running, but I am already programming our application for it. I was wondering, since the IMAQ Vision VI's seem to pertain to 8-bit, 16-bit, and floating point images, I was wondering if they will work fine with a 12-bit image like the one from the 1M30 camera. I was also wondering, if they do work fine, what format the output of a VI like IMAQ ImageToArray will be. Will the 12-bit pixel values be converted into 16-bit?

Thanks for the help.

[BruceAmmons]

A 12 bit image is stored within IMAQ as a 16 bit image. Only routines that accept 16 bit images can be used for manipulating the image.

The IMAQ WindDraw converts 16 bit images to 8 bit images for display, using the selected method. You can also manually convert to an 8 bit image for automatic thresholding and other routines that don't accept 16 bit images. For most applications, you will want to shift it 4 bits during conversion so the most significant bits are preserved.

Bruce