September 24, 2013 – Navitar released MagniStar telecentric lenses. The MagniStar line includes C-mount bi-telecentric lenses with built-in adjustable iris; designed specifically for measurement and inspection applications that require extreme precision. The first two lenses in the series feature magnifications of 0.128X and 0.528X.
Navitar’s lenses offer high telecentricity, built-in iris, excellent MTF performance, no parallax error, and less than 0.1% image distortion. These high-resolution, low distortion lenses are designed to work with camera formats of 2/3" and smaller; and will support megapixel cameras with 3.5um pixels. MagniStar lenses are perfect for industrial and electronic parts inspection and other imaging applications where greater depth of field is required.