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Extended shutter – ALLIED Vision Technologies Marlin F-201 User Manual

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Controlling image capture

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The minimum adjustable exposure time set by register is 20 µs.

The real

minimum exposure time of a Marlin F-033 is then:
20 µs + 12 µs = 32 µs

Extended shutter

The exposure time for long-term integration of up to 67 seconds can be
extended via the advanced register: EXTENDED_SHUTTER

The longest exposure time, 3FFFFFFh, corresponds to 67.11 sec.

The lowest possible value of ExpTime is camera-specific (see

Table 44: Cam-

era-specific minimum exposure time

on page 121).

Register

Name

Field

Bit

Description

0xF100020C

EXTD_SHUTTER

Presence_Inq

[0]

Indicates presence of this feature (read
only)

---

[1.. 5]

Reserved

ExpTime

[6..31]

Exposure time in µs

Table 46: Advanced register: extended shutter

Note

L

Exposure times entered via the 81Ch register are mir-
rored in the extended register, but not vice versa.

Longer integration times not only increase sensitivity,
but may also increase some unwanted effects such as
noise and pixel-to-pixel non-uniformity. Depending on
the application, these effects may limit the longest
usable integration time.

Changes in this register have immediate effect, even
when the camera is transmitting.

Extended shutter becomes inactive after writing to a
format/mode/frame rate register.

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