Kowa offers high-quality lenses designed and manufactured in Japan for machine vision and video security as well as low-cost, high quality lenses for color and monochrome video cameras. Kowa lenses include megapixel lenses with low distortion, IR vari-focal lenses, and motorized zoom lenses up to 750mm for long-range surveillance.
Kowa is one of the largest privately owned companies in Japan with business activities in textiles, pharmaceuticals, broadcast and medical and imaging systems. The optics division is best known for their binoculars and spotting scopes, recognized across the world for their superior optical performance.
The Kowa Imaging optics is developed in the Hamamatsu and Chofu Factories and lens manufacturing, which includes polishing and grinding of some of the most difficult types of lenses in the world, takes place at the Gamagori Factory in Japan.
Industrial FA machine vision lenses
Kowa FA Industrial lenses are designed for inspection, quality control and geometric measurements in machine vision applications, where high resolution, low distortion and high contrast are important parameters. Most models include lockable focus and iris rings.
Features
- Manual iris and focus
- Manual zoom (Macro series)
- C-mount (Except CLS series)
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Lenses for sensors up to 22 mm diagonal
Low distortion and high resolution
Focal lengths 12, 16, 25, 25 and 50mm |
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Lenses for 2/3" sensors with up to 10 megapixel
Focal lengths 5, 8, 12, 16, 25, 25 and 50mm |
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Lenses for 1" format sensors up to 2 megapixel with low distortion and excellent light transmission. Highly recommended also for smaller format sensors.
Focal lengths 8, 12.5, 16, 25, 35, 50 or 75mm. |
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This series of megapixel lenses offer super high resolution and utilizes the floating mechanism system for best performance at all object distances.
Focal lengths 5, 8, 12, 16, 25, 35 or 50mm |
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With metal bodies and locking screw, the NCL/NCM series can be used in a variety of machine vision applications for ½ inch sensors.
Focal lengths 3.5, 4.5, 6 or 12 mm. |
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These newly designed metal body objectives for 1/2" 3-CCD cameras provide megapixel resolution with very low color aberration.
Focal lengths 4, 6, 12, 25 or 50 mm. |
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High-resolution compact machine vision lenses with excellent cost/performance for 2/3 inch sensors.
Focal lengths 6, 8, 12, 16, 25, 35, 50, 75 or 100mm. |
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Telecentric lens for critical machine vision applications. Focal length 50mm, telecentric focusing range from 0.5X to 1X |
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Macro zoom lenses for machine vision applications. Zoom range 6X to 10.5X Sensor size from 1/3 to 2/3 inch Macro and 3CCD versions |
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Line Scan series
Low distortion line scan lenses for sensors up to 43 mm.
28, 35 and 50mm (F-Mount)
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Line scan lenses for 3CCD color sensors for accurate color measurements. With ultra-high resolution, low color aberrations and uniform sensor illumination.
Focal lengths 28, 35 or 50 mm (F-mount) |
CCTV lenses
Kowa CCTV lenses are intended for visual applications using TV – resolution imaging sensors (525/625 lines). These lenses are designed for good color fidelity, compact size, large zoom range, and low cost.
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Powerful 25X motorised zoom lenses
Kowa offers the impressive Mega-zoom lenses with 25X motorized zoom range for long-range surveillance applications. The mega-zoom lenses are specially designed using ED-glass for superior color fidelity over the entire zoom range. |
Features
- Fixed focus, vari-focal and zoom types
- Manual, dc or video iris
- IR-versions for day & night use
- Zoom to 25X and 750 mm
- CS or C-mount
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For general purpose surveillance and monitoring applications
1/3” format: 2.3, 2.8, 4, 8 mm
1/2” format: 3.5, 4.5, 6, 12 mm
2/3” format: 8, 12, 16, 25 mm |
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1/3” format: 2.3, 2.8, 4, 8 mm
1/2” format: 3.5, 4.5, 6, 12 mm
2/3” format: 16, 25 mm |
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1/3” format: 1.6-3.4, 2.5-6, 2.8-12, 5-40, 5.5-82.5
1/2” format: 4-10, 6.5-32, 9-90 mm |
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1/2” format: 4-10, 6.5-52, 9-90, 15-300 mm
1/3” format: 1.6-3.4, 2.5-6, 2.7-12, 3-8, 5-40, 5-50, 5.5-82, 5-100 mm
1/4” format: 2.2-5.8 mm |
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1/2” format: 8.5 -51, 8 -80, 8-120, 11-200, 10-250, 15-375, 30-750mm
1/3” format: 6-36, 6-48, 6-90, 6-60, 5.6-112, 5.5-165 mm |
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1/2” format: 8-51, 8-80, 8-120, 11-200, 10-250, 15-375, 30-750 mm
1/3” format: 6-60, 6-90, 5.6-112, 5.5-165mm |
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1/2” format: 8-51, 8-80, 8-120, 15-375, 30-750 mm
1/3” format: 6-48, 6-60, 6-90, 5.6-112 mm |
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