THE CHALLENGE

There are a few lost-cost HDMI cameras available on the market, but In general, these cameras tend to be available in color-only (no monochrome), and they tend to use low-cost image sensors with small pixels and “rolling shutters.”

There are also some low-cost solutions available direct from China, but product lifetime support is very important for Industrial Workstation applications. Cameras from The Imaging Source are designed and supported for machine vision applications – a field that demands long product lifetimes for future replacements or additions. 

ROLLING SHUTTER ARTIFACTS
A rolling shutter suffers from image distortion artifacts that may be “acceptable” during streaming video,  but if the operator takes a snap-shot while an object is in motion, the artifacts will degrade the quality of the resulting captured image. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_shutter

Still images are often captured by Quality Assurance inspectors – to document images of anomalies in the manufactured product.