Camera Selection: https://ocularcomponentmv.blogspot.com/2014/04/machine-vision-lens-and-camera.html
Lens mount quality
- CS < M12 < C (best for machine vision)
- Use C mount for image sensors > 1/8"
- M12 is suited only for sensors upto 1/8". Cheap M12 are only good upto 1/3". Expensive M12 do not have as much distortion as cheap M12 and are suitable for high resolution cameras and sensors upto 1/8".
- CS mount is bad for machine vision. Mostly used in CCTV cameras.
CS mount cameras can support M12 and C mount lenses with adapters.

Considerations

Sensor size
FoV
- At a fixed pixel size and a fixed aspect ratio your field of view will increase with increasing number of pixels. With this relation it is thus possible to decide between the IMX252 and IMX253
Working Distance
Optimized for Application (e.g. M12 is only distortion optimized for short distances, while C is optimized for more aberrations).
- Find which aberrations can be corrected and which ones are acceptable, etc.
Environment (for damping, etc.)
Interface
- MIPI CSI 2/3 | Camera Link | USB 3.0 | Gig-E | CoaXPress | SLVS-EC | Sub LVDS
Range-estimation
- ToF
- Parallax

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