The enhanced version of PCO's proprietary camera control software is now available to download.
Camware 4.04 provides many new features: Multi Window, Math Toolbar, Segment Switcher, View Window Properties, Added File Numbering to Auto Save and many more.
Multi Window: view the images of all...
The new pco.panda sCMOS camera provides high quantum efficiency with low readout noise in an ultra-compact body. The addition of the USB 3.1 interface enables a new generation of cameras with ultra-speed data transfer and direct power via the USB cable.
Be the first to see our “blue panda”...
New driver versions now available for USB 2.0, USB 3.0, GigE (including new manual) and Silicon Software Camera Link.
The year 2016 is coming to an end. With a very special Christmas card, created by the children of our colleagues, we would like to wish all our friends, customers and their families a peaceful Merry Christmas and a successful start into 2017!
PCO has closed for Christmas holidays from December 24...
The enhanced version of PCO's proprietary camera control software is now available to download.
Camera Link HS has been integrated in the 64bit version of Camware!
Master Settings facilitate image acquisition with multiple cameras. Easily switch between camera settings during an experiment using...
Due to advancements in CMOS image sensor technology a new camera system, pco.flim, has been created to allow for easy and fast fluorescence (and phosphorescence) lifetime imaging. The webinar will shortly reintroduce the principle of photoluminescence lifetime imaging. Based on the principle of...
New interface for increased bandwidth: the Camera Link HS (CLHS) interface enables transmission of 1.1 GByte/s of image data and is available for pco.edge 4.2 & 5.5.
Find out more about the pco.edge CLHS.
Due to advancements in CMOS image sensor technology a new camera system, pco.flim, has been created to allow for easy and fast fluorescence (and phosphorescence) lifetime imaging. The webinar will shortly reintroduce the principle of photoluminescence lifetime imaging. Based on the principle of...
The year 2015 is coming to an end. With a very special Christmas card, created by the children of our colleagues, we would like to wish all our friends, customers and their families a peaceful Merry Christmas and a successful start into 2016!
PCO presents Camware 4, our completely new camera software.
The modern user interface includes many new features that provide simpler more efficient camera operation. The software features flexible software control elements, a quick thumbnail preview function and an optimized multi-camera...
The pco.edge 4.2 is now equipped with the latest generation sCMOS sensor increasing quantum efficiency to 82 % with an improved dynamic range of 40 000 : 1. The significant improvement in photon detection results in shorter exposure times with consistent higher image quality.
Proven sCMOS technology in an individually configurable OEM-product: the pco.edge board-level camera is the newest member of the pco.edge family.
Please contact us directly for a detailed consultation about the various possibilities.
PCO's high-speed cameras offer best light sensitivity and furthermore real 10 to 12 bit dynamic range with leading image and color quality for your applications.
All products at a glance - the new high-speed product overview (pdf).
Visit also our high-speed camera page.
The most versatile sCMOS camera portfolio on the market: the pco.edge family and its new models pco.edge 3.1 & 4.2 LT are presented in the new sCMOS product overview.
The pco.edge family of sCMOS cameras features an excellent combination of high resolution, high quantum efficiency, high frame rates...
PCO – the pioneer in sCMOS technology releases two new versions of its pco.edge family to round off the product portfolio: the pco.edge 3.1 and the pco.edge 4.2 LT. Both models provide the high standard of scientific CMOS sensor technology, combining high quantum efficiency, best dynamic range,...
We congratulate our long term research project partner Prof. Dr. Stefan W. Hell, and the scientists Eric Betzig and William E. Moerner for recieving this years Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their work on improving the resolution of optical microscopy.
Compact, ruggedized, high-speed - the new pco.dimax CS all in one multi-tool. Leading high-speed image and color quality occurs within a new camera body which is high-G resistant and offers lots of application possibilities.
Vacuum technology, compact designed and deep-cooled sCMOS sensor inside - the pco.edge family grows again. PCO relased its next version of the pco.edge cameras the pco.edge 4.2 gold.
PCO received the Innovation award 2013 (German) of the Mittelbayerische Zeitung, a large regional newspaper.
PCO has been appointed for the 2nd time by the "The New Economy" Magazine to the "Innovation 40 - the most dynamic companies and individuals shaping the future of business"
For those of our customers who are interested in long exposures and best performance at still good frame rates, the new member of the pco.edge family, the pco.edge gold 5.5 is released. It features deep-cooling of the image sensor to -15 °C (air-cooled) and -30 °C (water-cooled) and a USB 3.0...
To all of you, we wish some quiet and relaxing days. On the 2nd January 2014 we'll be back in the offices to serve you for your camera applications.
Now all the pco.edge cameras are available with a USB 3.0 interface instead of the full camera link, ideally suited for applications where mobility is more important than maximum frame rates.
A new member of the sCMOS camera family is proudly presented by PCO. The pco.edge 4.2 offers additional features to solve different application demands which show up in all fields like life science, physical science and industrial research. Product details: pco.edge 4.2
Specifications:
Since there is a large fraction of cyclists at PCO, the company has sponsored cycles jerseys to keep PCO in motion.
The USB 3.0 data interface is now an option for the pco.dimax high speed family and pco.cameras like pco.1200hs, pco.1600, pco.2000, pco.4000. With USB 3.0 you will achieve fast data transfer speeds. A backfitting of your existing camera to USB 3.0 is also possible.
For further information on USB...
PCO has been appointed by the "The New Economy" Magazine to the "Innovation 40 - the most dynamic companies and individuals shaping the future of business"
The pco.dimax HS1 now available with 1000x1000 pixel. After the HS2 and HS4 version the new family member pco.dimax HS1 is ready. It provides 7000 fps with its well known image quality and light sensitivity.
PCO expands its pco.dimax high speed series by two new models: pco.dimax HS2and pco.dimax HS4. Both cameras will be available as monochrome versions withfollowing resolutions and frame rates:
pco.dimax HS2: 5469 fps @ 1400 x 1050pixel
pco.dimax HS4: 2277 fps @ 2000 x 2000 pixel
We have released for the Vision show 2012 the new pco.edge sCMOS brochure, which shows and explains in detail all features and benefits of the breathtaking scientific CMOS image sensor technology in our pco.edge camera.
Blue Paw Artists and the Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Laboratory (University of Applied Sciences Dresden, Faculty of Spatial Information) start on an expedition to figure out where the well of the River Essquibo in Guayana is. This river is one of the longest rivers in Sout America, but its...
Now the new interface standard CameraLink HS ins released and online. It can be downloaded for free!
Like always partners and respresentatives followed our call for the International Sales Meeting (ISM) 2011. Over 3 days time period we had various lectures and presentations by PCO, Zeiss and Visitron. Further, more than half the time was used for hands-on workshops about the high performance camera...
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Have a guess what this might be at our facebook page. We'll soon disclose the secret - only on Facebook.
This is how inspiring destruction can be! What else would look beautiful when destroyed? Submit your ideas on Facebook....
Have a guess at our facebook page. You'll find the solution there soon - only on Facebook. So stay tuned!
We at PCO are all very shocked by what happened in Japan. We watch the events with care and sympathy and hope that all our customers, partners and their families in Japan are well and safe and that the country will soon recover from this horrible event.
From the start of the new pco.dimax HD/HD+ highspeed camera found considerable interest in the car safety test community. As smaller brother to the well known pco.dimax, it shares the excellent image quality at a little smaller resolution and a more convenient price tag.
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The new pco.edge - the first pco.sCMOS camera is send around as prototype for testing to the people that already expressed their interest in this new technology.
Kelheim (Germany), Belfast (Northern Ireland), Milpitas (USA), 23 July 2009 - Scientists are reporting that the new sCMOS technology is proving essential for scientific imaging applications because, for the first time, it is allowing for the accurate measurement of structures that are very dim as...
Fairchild Imaging, PCO AG, and Andor Technology combine resources to give CMOS technology long heralded world lead position
Laser World of Photonics - Munich, Germany, 16 June 2009 - CMOS image sensor (CIS) technology today stands on the brink of fulfilling its potential to become the global...