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Theia Technologies Lens Calculator

Instructions: --Choose the units, camera resolution, and lens from the yellow drop down lists below. --Enter the desired resolution, distance, or field of view into the appropriate yellow box and hit "enter". The values in the green boxes are calculated automatically. Units Choose camera resolution Sensor size Metric (m) 5MPix 1/2.5"

Choose lens SY110 (1.7mm) HFOV 120deg Input Horizontal field of view (m) Distance to camera 0m Case 1 Result for known HFOV Image resolution #DIV/0! Distance to image edge 0m

or Case 2 Distance to camera (m)

Result for known distance to camera Distance to Horizontal field of Image resolution image edge view 0m #DIV/0! 0m Result for known image resolution Horizontal field of Distance to Distance to view image edge camera #DIV/0! #DIV/0! #DIV/0!

Case 3

or Desired image resolution (pixels/m)

Horizontal field of view and image resolution Object Distance to camera Distance to image edge

Camera

With Theia's Linear Optical Technology lenses, image resolution for objects along a plane (perpendicular to the objects are farther away from the camera at the image edges. For instance, the person in the image center at 2 of the image (SY110 lens in this case), the person is still 37 pixels/ft but they are 40 feet away from the camera. image resolution as the object moves to the edge of the image. To learn more about calculating resolution from our white paper click on the picture.

Help! --Please direct all questions and comments to Theia at 503-570-3296 or CustomerService@TheiaTech.com.

along a plane (perpendicular to the camera) is constant even though the , the person in the image center at 20 feet distance is 37 pixels/ft. At the edge y are 40 feet away from the camera. Other wide angle lenses will decrease

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Units

English (ft) Metric (m)

Lens Pixels Camera resolution VGA/ Analog High res 1.3MPix 2MPix 3MPix 5MPix Camera resolution Lens 6 3

640 840 1280 1600 2048 2560

Size 1/3 1/3 1/3 1/2 1/2 1/2.5

SY125 (1.3mm) SY110 (1.7mm) 125 110 125 110 125 110 140 125 140 125 135 120

3mm 77 77 77 94 94 88

6mm 44 44 44 56 56 51

12mm 23 23 23 30 30 27

26mm 11 11 11 14 14 13

50mm 5 5 5 7 7 7

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