General Series Features

This section provides rough guidance on how to select a suitable camera model given your application constraints.

Most of our camera models can be fitted with different optics and focus distances to form a wide range of different camera variants. You can use our camera selector tool to choose the model matching your application requirements. The composition of the camera model names is defined by our naming scheme.

Overview

Feature	B-Series	C / CR-Series	N-Series	X / XR-Series
Housing Size	XS	S / M / L	XS	S / M
Projection Color	GN / BL	57: BL 67: BL / IR	BL / IR	BL
Stereo Sensor Type	5 MP (optional RGB)	5 MP	3 MP	2CP/2FA: 1.6 MP 5CP/5FA: 5 MP
Color Sensor Type	/	57: 2 MP 67: 8 MP	/	/
Ethernet Speed	1 GigE	C57/CR: 1 GigE C67: 5 GigE	1 GigE	X: 1 - 2 GigE XR: 1 GigE
Price	€€	C: €€ CR: €€€	€	X: €€€ XR: €€€€
PoE	PoE++	PoE++	PoE	/
Maximal Working Distance	GN: 800 mm BL: 2000 mm	5000 mm	N1: 2000 mm NX: 3000 mm	5000 mm

Housing

When space is limited and a compact device is needed B-series and N-series devices should be considered first. When space is not critical C-, CR-, X- and XR-series devices will in general deliver higher quality data with more robustness against ambient light.

Projection Color

When acquiring images of the human face it might be beneficial to use infrared projection, which is available in N-series models only. Also synchronous acquisition of color images in moving scenes only results in high quality data when using infrared projection.

Resolution

B/C/CR/X/XR-series cameras are available with higher resolution sensor models.

C/CR/X/XR-series will in general achieve high depth resolutions because of the larger available baselines.

Texture Images

B-series have variants which use color stereo sensors and can be used to directly take texture images from the same perspective as the depth image.

C-series contain a 2.3MP color sensor which can be used to take texture images.

CR-series contain an 8MP color sensor which can be used to take texture images.

Performance

CR- and XR-series cameras perform on-board processing. This is beneficial when using multiple cameras, or using with relatively low performance host systems because each camera brings its own processing power. On-board processing on CR-series is faster compared to XR series, but if your host system has sufficient performance (>8 CPU cores, CUDA-enabled GPU, etc.) you might still be able to achieve slightly higher performance when connecting single C- or X-series devices to this system.