Sill Optics
Sill Optics (booth 1266) will present telecentric lenses for machine visio
Farmers are starting to reap the rewards of robotics and machine vision, as Keely Portway finds out
Sill Optics
Good vibrations
3 January 2019
Greg Blackman reports on the latest lens technology presented during Vision Stuttgart, including optics designed to withstand shock
Shining a light on lenses
11 January 2018
Stemmer Imaging’s series of technology days included talks from various lens manufacturers. Here, we round up some of what was discussed at the event
Sill Optics
Sill Optics’ telecentric lenses for applications beyond standard metrology setups will be on display at booth 1146
Sill Optics GmbH & Co. KG
Sill Optics is one of the few mid-sized companies in Germany specialized in the production of optical components. Its philosophy “100% made in Germany” is kept from their own production up to their supply chain.
The product range focuses on telecentric imaging lenses, standard lenses and telecentric condensers for illumination. Besides high quality, flexibility due to inhouse production and individual services are offered by them.
Rising to the resolution challenge
12 October 2015
Larger sensors and smaller pixels are pushing image resolution higher, but can the lenses for machine vision cameras keep up? Lucy Goodchild van Hilten reports on maximising resolution through optics
Telecentric condensers
31 October 2011
Sill Optics has added two new lens series to its existing portfolio of telecentric condensers
Wide angle lenses
14 July 2010
Sill Optics has introduced wide angle lenses for security and other monitoring tasks
S5LPJ9050
10 December 2009
Sill Optics has introduced a thermal imaging lens with 50mm focal length and an f-number of 1.5
S6IRI154x
30 April 2007
Sill Optics has released the S6IRI154x, a precision LED condenser with aspheric surfaces that is compatible with the reliable standard S6IRI153x condensers.
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