Canon MS-500: ultra-sensitive camera with Spad sensor for recording color video

Developed for port surveillance applications, Public infrastructure or borders, MS-500 is an ultra-sensitive interchangeable lens camera that Canon has been equipped with a 1" Spad sensor and with 3,2 Megapixel.

The camera MS-500 What Canon has just presented allows the performance of advanced surveillance tasks thanks to the recording of clear video images of subjects located several kilometers away, day and night.

This ultra-sensitive interchangeable lens device (ILC, in its acronym in English), incorporates a Spad sensor (Single Photon Avalanche Diode) one-inch offering 3,2 Megapixel, The highest in the world according to the company, for color video recording with a Solo lighting 0,001 Lux.

Canon MS-500 is developed for those spaces where they are required Extreme levels of security, such as ports, Public infrastructure facilities, Borders, Etc; in which it is necessary to have High-precision monitoring systems to record subjects faithfully and rigorously in different lighting conditions, both day and night.

When used in combination with ultra-telephoto broadcast lenses, It's possible Record clear videos of subjects at a distance of several kilometers, Even in the Dark of Night. Leveraging its range of ultra-sensitive cameras, including ME20/ML Series, Canon helps meet various recording needs in the advanced video surveillance market.

The Spad sensor uses technology known as "Photon count", that allows counting light particles (Photons) that go into each pixel, to become an electrical charge that can be instantly amplified a million times, Approximately, and extracted as an amplified signal to detect even small amounts of light.

In addition, Each of these photons can be counted digitally, which makes it possible for no noise to enter during the reading of the signal, which is a differential advantage of Spad sensors to achieve clear color video recordings, in environments with very low lighting, of only 0,001 Lux. The mount for the lenses is bayonet type (in accordance with BTA S-1005B standards), Very common in broadcast.

When performing surveillance tasks at night and over long distances, The effect of atmospheric noise and vibration, especially in dark environments, may cause problems with video clarity.

To fix it, CrispImg2, that optimizes sharpness settings, the range curve and Noise reduction for monitoring applications, is installed as a standard application in the custom image function, allowing you to precisely select image quality settings.

Thanks to this, it is possible to record highly visible videos at any time of the day or night.. Canon MS-500 also features the Haze compensation function, which reduces these effects and automatically adjusts for adequate contrast, as well as image correction functions to improve the quality of videos.

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