Acquiring Your First Images - Basler Pioneer User Manual

Software and Hardware Installation

2.4 Acquiring Your First Images

To adjust your camera's settings and to acquire and view your first images, we suggest that you use
the pylon Viewer software. The following steps assume that you are using the pylon Viewer.
At this point, many of the camera's settings will be preliminary. Information about how to improve
your image quality and to make camera settings more suitable for your specific application appear
later in this section of this manual.
Before attempting to acquire images, make sure that the camera software and hardware have been
installed as described in the beginning of the Installation section.
To change the camera's settings and acquire images:
1. Put an object within the camera's field of view.
2. Make sure that the object is properly illuminated. Use continuous illumination for this initial
setup. If you want to use strobe light in your application, it is better to try this after the initial
setup. If you need assistance in determining the optimum illumination for your application,
contact Basler technical support using the numbers that appear in the title pages of this
manual.
3. To start the pylon Viewer, click the
will open as shown below.
Menu Bar
Tool Bar
Device Tree
Image Display Area
The device tree displays all available devices ordered by their type of interface (i.e., GigE,
FireWire). All devices attached to a bus, including your camera, are also shown in the tree.
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icon on your computer's desktop. The viewer window
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