According to Gerrit Schreiber, Product Manager for IP Components at Basler, "Theia's megapixel resolution lenses complement our high definition, megapixel IP cameras. Their ultra wide, undistorted field of view supports the full coverage provided with our megapixel solutions. We believe this will add a valuable option for our customers."

Theia’s patented Linear Optical Technology® enables an image with less than 1% barrel distortion. By contrast, most wide angle lenses above 80 degrees horizontal field of view produce an image with noticeable levels of barrel distortion, also known as fisheye distortion. Distortion in typical wide angle lenses compresses data at the edges of the image, causing a loss of information, which translates into degraded image resolution in those areas. Theia’s technology doesn’t compress or lose information, but instead maps the subject over more pixels providing improved image resolution at the image edge and increasing the chance of recognition of individuals and objects.

Theia’s lenses correct barrel distortion in the optics of the lens without the use of de-warping software for a faster, real time solution. Image information lost due to the barrel distortion of typical wide angle lenses cannot be recovered even with the use of de-warping software.

And the SY110 lens is IR corrected so maintains its crisp, clear megapixel resolution image in IR illumination making it a perfect accessory for Basler’s box day and night cameras, with their removable infrared-cut filter. Theia’s ultra-wide angle lens with Basler’s megapixel network cameras broaden the possibilities by further enhancing the crisp, clear images provided through Basler’s camera technology.