Industrial F-mount / M42 mount / M72 mount lenses for Machine Vision
Why buy an industrial F-mount or M42 mount lens?
In high-end machine vision applications, cameras with F-mount are often used. F-mount and M42 mount lenses has a much larger diameter than a C-mount lens. The result is that an F-mount lens can illuminate a larger sensor than a C-mount lens. C-mount lenses can illuminate up to 4/3 inch sensors, while an F-mount lens can illuminate 35mm sensors. If we translate the sensor sizes into diameters, also called image circle, then a C-mount lens has a maximum image circle of 21.5mm (4/3 ”sensor), while an f-mount lens has a minimum image circle of 43mm (suitable for 35mm sensors). The image circle of the F-mount lens is twice as large, which is why the F-mount lens is suitable for very large image sensors. Our F-mount and M42 lenses can be perfectly used with some of our USB3, GigE and 10GigE cameras that employ large image sensors.
