Video cameras take continuous pictures and generate signals for display or recording. They capture images by breaking them down into a series of lines. This search form does not include consumer devices such as camcorders

Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) cameras use image sensors that operate at lower voltages than charged coupled devices (CCDs), reducing power consumption for portable applications. Each CMOS active pixel sensor cell has its own buffer amplifier, and can be addressed and read individually. 

Camera lenses and video lenses attach to video cameras for use in machine vision, quality monitoring, security, and remote monitoring for industrial and commercial operations. This search form does not cover consumer video camera lenses. 

Optical apertures and slits control the diameter of beams from light sources.

Charge coupled device (CCD) cameras contain light-sensitive silicon chips that detect electrons excited by incoming light. They also contain micro circuitry that transfers a detected signal along a row of discrete picture elements or pixels, scanning the image very rapidly. CCD cameras use two-dimensional CCD arrays with many thousand of pixels

Camera filters provide a range of optical filtering effects in scientific, research, and industrial applications

High speed cameras are designed for rapid image acquisition for scientific or industrial analysis of rapidly changing or moving processes

Low light cameras are designed for low light applications. They contain sensors that are highly sensitive to light and reduce images to a series of lines

Camera control units (CCUs) are used to remotely control operations such as zoom, panning, focus, and aperture

Charge injection device (CID) cameras are used in analytical instrumentation, industrial machine vision, medical, scientific and aerospace applications

Thermal imagers detect heat patterns in the infrared wavelength (1 micron to 100 micron) spectrum.

Video switchers control video display sequences for multiple camera systems

Vision sensors are machine vision video cameras with integrated signal processing and imaging electronics. They typically include program and data interfaces

Digital video recorders record and store video camera output in digital form on disk

Biological microscopes are used to study organisms and their vital processes.