Jul 28, 2022
Ver0.91

USB3.0 UV CMOS Camera
ARTCAM-487UVINSTRUCTION BOOKLET

8.1 M Pixels

ARTCAM-487UVARTRAY CO., LTD.

- 1 -Contents
1.

Attention ................................................................................................................................................... - 3 -2.

Introduction .............................................................................................................................................. - 6 -3.

Main Features .......................................................................................................................................... - 6 -4.

The Product .............................................................................................................................................. - 6 -5.

Connections.............................................................................................................................................. - 7 5.1.

6.

Connecting Method (an example) ................................................................................................. - 7 -Specifications ........................................................................................................................................... - 8 6.1.

Camera Specifications .................................................................................................................... - 8 -6.1.1.

Camera specification list ......................................................................................................... - 8 -6.1.2.

Dimensional Outline................................................................................................................. - 9 -6.1.3.

Schematic Diagram of the Sensor ....................................................................................... - 10 -6.2.

Camera’s Functions ....................................................................................................................... - 11 -6.2.1.
7.

8.

Shutter Speed ......................................................................................................................... - 11 -Spectral Sensitivity Characteristics .................................................................................................... - 12 7.1.

ARTCAM-487UV............................................................................................................................. - 12 -7.2.

UV Bandpass Filter（U340）(Optional） ................................................................................... - 12 -Systems Requirements ......................................................................................................................... - 13 8.1.

Recommended Specifications ...................................................................................................... - 13 -- 2 -1. Attention■About this manual
1. Before using the camera, please read this manual thoroughly.
2. Please keep this manual reachable and always refer to the contents when needed.
3. Please contact us if the manual is lost or damaged. We will provide a replacement.
4. We cannot guarantee the safety of improper uses of the camera.
5. For your safety, please follow the directions of this manual.
6. All contents are subject to change.
7. Images in this manual may have been simplified to be easier comprehended.
8. Please contact us if you find any unclear points or mistakes in this manual.
9. Quoting, copying or altering some or all parts of the manual without our permission is prohibited.
10. We are not responsible for any lost or damages on your profits due to the use of our products.
11. Please understand that our oversea branches do not provide maintenance or repair services.
■About the Icons
To keep the safety of the user, other people and their properties, please pay attention to the following
icons.

W

Warning

If the user fails to follow the instruction, serious injury or death may occur.

CautionIf the user fails to follow the instruction, physical injury on human or damages on hardware may occur.

- 3 -■For Safe Use

Warning●In following circumstances, please stop using the product and turn off the power immediately toprevent the risks of fires and electric shocks. If the product is defective, please contact us for repair orexchange. For your safety, please do not disassemble, modify or repair the camera on your own.
Please stop using the product and turn off the power immediately when:
・The product becomes smoky or gets extremely hot on the surface, or makes unusual smells or sounds.
・Foreign material or water gets into the product.
・The product falls and becomes damaged.
●Do not place the product on unstable surfaces. The product may be fallen and people may get hurt.

Caution●Do not expose the product to steam or fumes to avoid electric shocks and fires.
●Do not leave the product in high temperature places such as inside of vehicles or under direct
sunlight. High temperature may cause damages to the camera, or even cause fires.
●Do not cover the product with cloth or other materials. The product may get extremely hot and theheat may cause deformations on the parts or even cause fires.
●Please avoid dropping or shocking the product as the product may be damaged.
●Do not touch the cable with a wet hand. Such action may cause electric shocks.
●Please avoid continuously contacting the surface of the camera to your skin when the camera isbeing used. The surface temperature of the camera may cause burns.
■Other Notices●Please do not use the camera under strong lights such as sun light for a long period. Also please donot expose the camera under strong lights even when the product is not being used because the sensor
might be damaged.
Maintenance● Wipe the dirt on surface with soft cloth or tissue paper. Do not use alcohol, thinner or benzene toavoid damaging the surface paints.

- 4 -Electro Magnetic Interference●The camera may interference with electronic devices such as TV and radio. Please do not place thecamera next to such equipment.
■Export Control
This product is a Catch-all Control item subject to the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act and its
relevant legislations. Except for exporting to the 26 white countries designated in the Cabinet Order,
export licenses are required if the products are going to be used for military use or if the end user of theproduct is related to all kinds of military activities. If your circumstances cause the need to apply export
licenses, please notify us before you place orders. Also, please notify us in advance if the end users orpurposes of use change after the purchase and thus cause the need to apply export licenses.
About the Japanese Security Export Controls, please refer to the webpage for Security Export Control
Policy, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry:
www.meti.go.jp/policy/anpo/englishpage.html
The above is based on the enforcement laws and regulations at the time of issuance of this document.
Please be sure to check the latest laws and regulations before actually exporting this product.
■Guarantee
To save the environment, we do not issue warranty in printed format. Instead, all records of thewarranty periods, delivery dates and the customer information are well kept in our system.
For more details, please refer to the following link:
Hardware Warranty: http://www.artray.us/download/artray_warranty.pdf●We do not guarantee the functions of this product or the descriptions on this manual to becompletely adapted to the users’ end applications or marketing purposes. We are also not held
responsibility for any direct or indirect damages caused by our products under any circumstances.
● Please do not use this product for a task that require high reliability. This product is not
manufactured to be used as medical, nuclear, aerospace, transportation equipment or equipment orthat is highly related to human safety. We are not held responsibility for any damages on the users’
property, equipment or personal safety caused by this product.
■Disposal●To dispose this product, please return the camera to us. If you decide to dispose the camera without
returning it to us, please follow related regulations and have the camera disposed as an industrialwaste. Please always keep track of the disposal, and make sure the disposed camera cannot beaccessed or used by any third party.
- 5 -2. Introduction
ARTCAM487UV is an ultraviolet camera that has high sensitivity to the wavelength band between 200
nm to 1000 nm.
Adopting USB3.0 interface, thus enables direct data transfer to PC without a capture card.

3. Main Features⚫

UV Detection with High Sensitivity

The adopted CMOS sensor has high sensitivity to the wavelength band between 200nm to 1000nm.
Therefore, it is able to detect beyond the visible light region and visualizing things that difficult to beseen by unaided eyes or common CCD / CMOS cameras.

⚫

USB3.0 Interface

Adopting USB3.0 interface, thus enables direct data transfer to PC without a capture board or a hostadapter card.

4. The Product1) Camera2) USB3.0 cable(USB3.0 A – micro B Type 3.0m)
3) Software CD<Options>
C Mount Lens

- 6 -5. Connections
5.1. Connecting Method (an example)- 7 -6. Specifications
6.1. Camera Specifications
6.1.1.

Camera specification list

Items
Image pickup device

SONY Back Illuminated 8.1M Pixels CMOS Sensor

Number of total pixels

2856(H) × 2912(V)

Number of output pixels

2848(H) × 2848(V)Pixel Size

2.74(H) [µm] × 2.74(V) [µm]Imaging area

7.82(H)×7.80(V)[mm](Diagonal 11.1[mm], Approx.2/3 inch)

Detection frequency band

200～1000nm

Shutter Type

Global Shutter

A/D Resolution

12bitsInterfaceUSB3.0 Bulk

Number of output bits

12bitsFrame Rate38fps

Shutter Speed

0.1ms ～ 26ms

Synchronization System

Internal Synchronization

Lens Mount

C Mount

Power5.0V (±0.5V) USB BUS PowerPower Consumption

Approx. 4W or lessAmbient Conditions

Operating Temperature/Humidity：0～35°C/10～80%(Non condensing)
Storage Temperature/Humidity：0～60°C /10～95%(Non condensing)External Dimensions
Weight50.0(W) × 47.0(H) × 42.7(D) mm※Exclude lens, tripod mount and projections
Approx. 130g
※Exclude lens, tripod mount and projections※All by nominal value- 8 -6.1.2.

Dimensional Outline

Drawing of the base withouta tripod mount- 9 -6.1.3.

Schematic Diagram of the Sensor- 10 -

6.2. Camera’s Functions
6.2.1.

Shutter Speed

The exposure time (electronic shutter speed) of the camera can be set.
(The software supports from 0.1 ms to 26 ms*)
*The setting resolution on the software is in units of 100 μs (0.1 ms), and exposure time will be set tothe closest value calculated within the software.

- 11 -7. Spectral Sensitivity Characteristics
7.1. ARTCAM-487UV

7.2. UV Bandpass Filter（U340）(Optional）
ARTCAM-487UV is possible to choose to install an additional filter U340, which can absorb visible
wavelengths and only allow ultraviolet wavelengths to pass.
Please refer to the following Spectral sensitivity line chart for detail.

- 12 -8. Systems Requirements
8.1. Recommended Specifications●Host Controller
This camera is applicable to USB 3.0.
Connecting to USB 2.0 host controller may cause low-speed or failure to function properly.
●CPUThe driver of this camera is applicable to computer architecture “x86” or “amd64”.
The specification of CPU effects directly the imaging process speed, therefore it is highly
recommended to utilize a high-end CPU if possible.
●Memory
In the viewer software, there is a data buffer which can store 4 to 8 frames.
Therefore, it is necessary to keep spare space at least for 8 frames in the memory.
(For example, when using 1.3MP color camera, 1280 x 1024 x 3 x 8 [byte] = 30[MB] isnecessary.)
It is highly recommended to keep enough memory space especially when using high resolution
camera.
●OSThis camera is applicable only to the architecture of Windows NT (32bit/64bit).
Standard functions are confirmed with OS after Windows 7.
In addition, it is recommended to use Windows 10.

Caution■Please refer the restrictions below when you use ARTCAM series.
(1) Recommended System Requirements
If the system specifications do not meet the requirements recommended above, it may be difficult torun at the maximum frame rate.
(2) Use of other USB3.0 Hardware
The data on our camera/converter is transferred in bulk mode. For this reason, when using ourcamera/converter, please avoid using other bulk transferred USB3.0 hardware such as Memory stick,
External HDD, External DVD, CDROM etc.
As a solution, we recommend installing a PCI USB host card to the PC and connect external USB
hardware to this port only.
(3) USB3.0 Cable Extension
We cannot guarantee the functionality of the USB3.0 camera if the user adopts USB3.0 extension
cables or repeaters which are not confirmed by us. With the extension cables or repeaters, thebandwidth of transfer may differ, and thus caused malfunctions such as a low frame rate or recognition
failure on the camera.
What may cause the problem is that the regulation of the power lines becomes not enough, and socauses impudence mismatch on data signals.
*For the recommended extension cable, please contact our sales department.
(TEL: +81-3389-5488)- 13 -ARTRAY CO., LTD. Obtained ISO 9001: 2015 2018/9/17
1-17-5 Kouenjikita, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 166-0002 Japan
Tel: +81-3-3389-5488
Email: sales@artray.us- 14 -Fax: +81-3-3389-5486
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