Can we use a different camera?

[jhersh]

Originally Posted by Doc Wu

The Axis cameras are expensive, for what they are, as well. Dlink has some interesting cameras for 1/3 the price. I don't know if the will work with our software, or not, though.

All cheap cameras are not created equal. We tested the D-Link cameras 2 years ago. We recommended the Axis because it's color accuracy was way better, the latency on the image was way lower (hardware JPEG compression), it boots faster, it's smaller, etc. All around, it was easily worth the difference in cost. If you think it's hard to make a vision system work reliably with what we use now, you'll be in a whole new world of hurt if you go for even worse cameras.

D-Link may have released new models since then that are a departure from their earlier performance, but I wouldn't move ahead without validating it thoroughly.