FireWire camera

FireWire cameras use the IEEE 1394 bus standard for the transmission of audio, video and control data. FireWire is Apple Computer's trademark for the IEEE 1394 standard.

FireWire cameras are available in the form of photo cameras and video cameras, which provide image and audio data. A special form of video cameras is used in the domains of industry, medicine, astronomy, microscopy and science. These special cameras do not provide audio data.

The structure of FireWire cameras is based on the following six modules:

FireWire cameras are based on CCD or CMOS chips. The light sensitive area, as well as the pixels of these chips are small. In the case of cameras with integrated optics we can assume that the optics is adapted to these chips.

However, in the domains of professional and semi-professional photography, as well as in the domain of cameras, interchangeable optics are often used. In these cases, a system specialist has to adapt the optics and the chip to the application (see System integration). Besides normal lenses, such interchangeable lenses may be microscopes, endoscopes, telescopes, etc. With the exception of the standard C-mount and CS-mount, the mounts of interchangeable optics are company-specific.

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