Image acquisition without NI hardware?

[gbugnard]

Hello

I am looking for a image acquisition system in LabView. I would like to use a FireWire camera. My question is the following: can I directly plug the camera in the built-in FireWire port of the computer, or do I have to buy one of those NI-FireWire PCI card? Will the camera be recognized by the system?

Thanks for the help!

Guillaume

[Eugen Graf]

You can try to implement the WDM/DirectX/Direct Show in LV or bye the Vision Module by Hytekautmation http://www.hytekautomation.com/Products/IVision.html

Eugen

[Chris Davis]

QUOTE(gbugnard @ Jun 19 2007, 06:36 AM)

I am looking for a image acquisition system in LabView. I would like to use a FireWire camera. My question is the following: can I directly plug the camera in the built-in FireWire port of the computer, or do I have to buy one of those NI-FireWire PCI card? Will the camera be recognized by the system?

You can do image acquisition on a firewire camer without NI's firewire card, but you will still have to buy a liscense to http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/12892' target="_blank">NI-IMAQdx to be able to do the acquisition with native NI Vision tools.

[gbugnard]

QUOTE

You can do image acquisition on a firewire camer without NI's firewire card, but you will still have to buy a liscense to NI-IMAQdx to be able to do the acquisition with native NI Vision tools.

Thanks for your answer. The software license should not be a problem. I asked my supervisor, and it seems, that the university has almost all the NI software license... For this reason I would like not to by an acquisition card and save some money on this project ;-)