Ricoh Americas Corporation of Malvern has new digital video cameras that provide up to five times the depth of field of traditional industrial cameras, while maintaining brightness.

Ricoh says its Extended Depth of Field (EDoF) camera is ideal for bottlers, printed circuit board makers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, shippers – any company that needs to inspect product and automatically alert managers to aberrations. They are also ideal in certain low-light situations, such as gem inspections.

The cameras, which clearly detect varying subjects in sharp focus and maintain image brightness, cost from $3,700 to $4,500.

“With this camera, you’ll rarely need to adjust the focus of your industrial camera,” said Matt Sakauchi, vice president of product marketing. “Just about everyone has assumed that depth of field – the range of in-focus distance in front of a lens – is as inviolable as the law of gravity. But our R&D teams discovered that, astonishingly, depth of field can actually be multiplied. Customers can save money, configuration time and the cost of complexity.”

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