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Imaging & Optics parts lists

BOMwiki lists 100 products in imaging & optics, with 13,120 parts counted across their recorded bills of materials. The highest recorded part count is the terrestrial laser scanner at 570 parts across 10 top-level items; the lowest is the zoetrope at 24. Open a product to explore its recorded components and their roles. Counts describe the current BOMs, not a complete inventory of every product variant.

100 products

35mm Film Scanner
35mm Film Scanner A motorized 35mm film transport and scanning system with a high-resolution line sensor, white LED illumination, precision focus optics, dual IR channels for dust and scratch removal. 39 parts · 8 BOM lines
35mm Film SLR Camera
35mm Film SLR Camera A single-lens reflex camera that exposes 24×36 mm frames on 135 film through a vertical-travel focal-plane shutter, using a flipping mirror and pentaprism so the photographer composes through the taking lens. 75 parts · 10 BOM lines
360 Panoramic Camera
360 Panoramic Camera A compact 360-degree camera with dual fisheye lenses, stereo image sensors, onboard stitching processor, rechargeable battery, and quick-release mount. 339 parts · 11 BOM lines
8mm Cine Projector
8mm Cine Projector A projector that advances 8mm film frame-by-frame using a claw mechanism, illuminating each frame through a lens to project magnified images onto a screen. 37 parts · 7 BOM lines
Action Camera
Action Camera A rugged waterproof action camera with a wide-angle lens, front and rear touch displays, in-body stabilisation, and dual microphones in a sealed housing. 271 parts · 13 BOM lines
Adaptive Optics System
Adaptive Optics System Real-time wavefront correction system using deformable mirrors and wavefront sensors to cancel atmospheric distortion. 35 parts · 8 BOM lines
AR Coating Machine Vacuum chamber system with electron-beam and resistance heating sources that deposit anti-reflective thin-film coatings on lens surfaces via ion-assisted evaporation. 52 parts · 8 BOM lines
Astro Camera A cooled CCD or CMOS sensor optimized for long-exposure deep-sky imaging, with thermoelectric cooling, filter interface, and USB controller. 27 parts · 10 BOM lines
Autoguider
Autoguider A guide camera monitoring a bright reference star and sending RA/Dec corrections to the mount to maintain perfect alignment during long exposures. 31 parts · 10 BOM lines
Automatic Surveying Level A tripod-mounted optical instrument whose internal pendulum compensator levels the line of sight automatically, letting a surveyor read height differences off a graduated staff to millimetre accuracy. 43 parts · 8 BOM lines
Binoculars
Binoculars A roof-prism, nitrogen-purged waterproof binocular with center focus, twist-up eyecups, and rubber-armored magnesium chassis. 54 parts · 9 BOM lines
Borescope Inspection Camera
Borescope Inspection Camera A handheld inspection tool with a long flexible probe and a lit camera tip that feeds live video to a screen for viewing inside engines, pipes, and walls. 169 parts · 7 BOM lines
Cable Camera System
Cable Camera System An overhead cable-suspended motorized camera platform with precision position control and stabilized optics for cinematic moves. 138 parts · 10 BOM lines
Camera Gimbal Stabilizer
Camera Gimbal Stabilizer A 3-axis handheld camera gimbal that motor-stabilizes a mounted camera across pan, tilt and roll. 177 parts · 16 BOM lines
Camera Jib Crane
Camera Jib Crane Articulated boom crane with counterweight arm, pan/tilt head interface, and tripod base for elevated camera positioning. 67 parts · 7 BOM lines
Camera Motion Control Rig
Camera Motion Control Rig Precision robotic camera support with multi-axis control for film/broadcast motion capture. 210 parts · 8 BOM lines
Camera Obscura
Camera Obscura A darkened chamber with a small aperture or lens projecting an inverted image of external scenes onto an internal viewing surface. 27 parts · 6 BOM lines
Colorimeter
Colorimeter A handheld tristimulus color sensor measuring reflected light intensity across visible wavelengths. 277 parts · 10 BOM lines
Computerized GoTo Telescope
Computerized GoTo Telescope A motorized GoTo Newtonian reflector on an equatorial mount with a hand controller that slews to catalog objects automatically. 320 parts · 11 BOM lines
Dashcam
Dashcam A 4K front-and-rear car dashcam with a windshield mount, video SoC mainboard, GPS, Wi-Fi, microSD recording, parking mode supercapacitor, a rear-view LCD, a tethered rear camera, and a 12 V power cable. 221 parts · 10 BOM lines
Digital Cinema Camera
Digital Cinema Camera A large-format digital cinema camera with interchangeable lens mount, dual recording media slots, integrated ND filter wheel, and multiple monitoring and sync outputs. 305 parts · 12 BOM lines
Digital Cinema Projector
Digital Cinema Projector A high-brightness projection system using DLP technology with laser or xenon light source, motorized lens turret, and integrated cooling. 383 parts · 9 BOM lines
Digital Microscope
Digital Microscope A microscope with no eyepiece that forms its image directly on a camera sensor, presenting a magnified live view on an LCD or HDMI monitor, with LED illumination, a focusing stage, and an image-processing main board. 88 parts · 8 BOM lines
Digital Night Vision Monocular
Digital Night Vision Monocular A digital night-vision monocular with an infrared-sensitive CMOS sensor, on-board IR illuminator, miniaturized OLED eyepiece display, objective lens, and pocket-sized ruggedized housing. 26 parts · 8 BOM lines
Digital Pupilometer
Digital Pupilometer Clinical instrument measuring interpupillary distance (IPD) and pupil diameter using corneal reflection optics and digital image analysis. 30 parts · 8 BOM lines
Dobsonian Telescope
Dobsonian Telescope A large-aperture Newtonian reflector on a simple altitude-azimuth mount with a stable rocker base and friction-bearing motion. 54 parts · 10 BOM lines
Document Camera
Document Camera A desktop visual presenter that points a high-resolution camera head down at documents or objects from an articulated arm, lights the subject with LEDs, and streams live video to projectors and computers over HDMI and USB. 247 parts · 9 BOM lines
DSLR Camera
DSLR Camera A digital single-lens reflex camera: a reflex mirror box and pentaprism feed an optical viewfinder, a focal-plane shutter exposes the sensor, and a kit zoom lens ships in the box. 553 parts · 17 BOM lines
Electronic Autocollimator
Electronic Autocollimator A precision optical angle measuring instrument that projects a collimated reticle, reads the return reflected from a target mirror on an image sensor, and computes the mirror tilt to sub-arc-second resolution. 34 parts · 8 BOM lines
Equatorial Mount
Equatorial Mount A two-axis telescope mount that aligns with Earth's rotation, using RA and Dec worm gears and motor drives for smooth sky tracking. 95 parts · 10 BOM lines
Fluid Head Tripod
Fluid Head Tripod Precision video tripod with fluid-damped pan/tilt head, counterbalance mechanism, and three-stage extendable legs. 49 parts · 7 BOM lines
Frame Warmer
Frame Warmer Benchtop heating device using hot-air circulation and optional glass-bead tray that softens eyeglass frames for bending and fitting adjustments. 36 parts · 7 BOM lines
Gloss Meter
Gloss Meter A handheld instrument measuring surface reflectance at fixed angles to quantify shininess. 242 parts · 9 BOM lines
High-Speed Camera
High-Speed Camera A CMOS-based high-speed camera with on-board ring buffer memory, hardware trigger I/O, interchangeable lens mount, and ruggedized magnesium alloy body. 183 parts · 9 BOM lines
Industrial 3D Scanner
Industrial 3D Scanner Scanner that captures part surfaces as dense 3D measurement data. 149 parts · 8 BOM lines
Infrared Thermometer
Infrared Thermometer A handheld non-contact thermometer that focuses a target spot of infrared radiation onto a thermopile detector, converts the signal to a temperature, and shows it on a display while a laser dot marks the aim point. 26 parts · 8 BOM lines
Instant Camera
Instant Camera A camera that exposes self-developing integral film and ejects each frame through spring-loaded rollers that burst a reagent pod to develop the print in minutes. 140 parts · 9 BOM lines
Integrating Sphere Photometer An integrating sphere photometer with a spectrally calibrated sphere, internal baffles, spectrometer detector head, sample illumination chamber, and processor for measuring luminous intensity, radiant power, and spectral properties. 31 parts · 8 BOM lines
Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope A cylinder containing mirrors and a translucent object chamber that creates symmetrical, repeating light patterns viewed through an eyepiece. 30 parts · 6 BOM lines
Kids Digital Camera
Kids Digital Camera A durable digital camera for children with a small image sensor, fixed rubberized lens, color LCD screen, built-in games processor, and rechargeable battery. 167 parts · 10 BOM lines
Large-Format View Camera
Large-Format View Camera A 4×5 inch monorail camera in which independently movable front and rear standards, joined by a flexible bellows, give the photographer direct control of the plane of focus and perspective on sheet film. 55 parts · 8 BOM lines
Laser Beam Profiler
Laser Beam Profiler A laser beam profiler with a motorized camera head, variable attenuators, beam sampler, and analysis unit for measuring beam diameter, divergence, M², wavefront, and power. 26 parts · 7 BOM lines
Laser Interferometer A stabilized laser Michelson interferometer with beam splitters, retroreflectors, precision detectors, and environmental compensation for nanometer-scale displacement and surface roughness measurement. 118 parts · 9 BOM lines
Laser Rangefinder
Laser Rangefinder A handheld monocular that fires a near-infrared laser pulse and times its round trip to a target to read distance, displayed on an in-view reticle. 220 parts · 11 BOM lines
Laser Tracker
Laser Tracker Instrument that measures large assemblies by tracking a target with a laser. 142 parts · 9 BOM lines
Lens Blocker Precision device attaching a lens to an alloy or resin block using adhesive or mechanical coupling, enabling grinding and polishing of lens surfaces. 41 parts · 8 BOM lines
Lens Groover Precision motorized tool that cuts grooves or channels into lens edges, enabling mechanical attachment to frame front or securing lens inserts. 34 parts · 8 BOM lines
Lens Polisher
Lens Polisher Automated polishing station with oscillating heads and circulating slurry that smooths lens surfaces to cosmetic finish after coarse grinding. 38 parts · 7 BOM lines
Lens Surfacing Generator CNC-driven lens fabrication system using a rotating spindle and cutting tool to grind and polish optical glass or plastic lenses to exact curvature. 48 parts · 8 BOM lines
Lens Tinting Unit
Lens Tinting Unit Benchtop machine with heated dye tanks and programmable immersion/agitation cycles that impregnates optical lenses with colored dyes. 71 parts · 8 BOM lines
Lensmeter
Lensmeter Optical instrument measuring lens refractive power (diopters), cylinder axis, prism, and cylindrical power with precision and repeatability. 34 parts · 8 BOM lines
Machine Vision Camera
Machine Vision Camera An industrial camera built around a global-shutter sensor and FPGA pipeline that delivers uncompressed, hardware-triggered images over GigE or USB3 for inspection, robotics, and measurement systems. 348 parts · 8 BOM lines
Matte Box
Matte Box Modular lens shade system with filter stages, swing-away arm, and rod-mounted support for cinema lenses. 39 parts · 7 BOM lines
Microfilm Scanner
Microfilm Scanner A digitisation machine that transports 16/35 mm roll microfilm or fiche past a line-scan sensor under controlled LED illumination, converting decades of archived frames into searchable image files. 348 parts · 10 BOM lines
Mirrorless Camera
Mirrorless Camera A full-frame mirrorless camera body with weather sealing, in-body stabilisation, and a kit zoom lens. 503 parts · 16 BOM lines
Motion Control Turntable Motorized rotating platter with app-based controller enabling programmed 360° product shots and timed rotations. 30 parts · 7 BOM lines
Motorized Camera Slider
Motorized Camera Slider Motorized rail carriage system with stepper drive and programmable controller for smooth time-lapse and video motion. 41 parts · 7 BOM lines
Night Vision Goggles
Night Vision Goggles A head-mounted image-intensifier device that amplifies starlight and moonlight roughly 30,000× so the wearer can see at night. 33 parts · 6 BOM lines
Observatory Dome
Observatory Dome Rotating dome shelter with motorized shutter and slew mechanism enabling a telescope to observe the full sky while protecting optics. 37 parts · 8 BOM lines
On-Camera Monitor
On-Camera Monitor Bright LCD monitor with SDI and HDMI video inputs, onboard scopes processing, and battery power. 33 parts · 8 BOM lines
Opaque Projector
Opaque Projector A lamp-based projector that illuminates and magnifies opaque objects (photographs, magazine clippings, text) onto a screen without requiring transparent slides. 36 parts · 7 BOM lines
Optical Comparator
Optical Comparator A bench metrology instrument that throws a magnified silhouette of a part onto a ground-glass screen, where its profile is compared against a reticle or overlay chart while an X-Y stage with a digital readout measures features. 94 parts · 7 BOM lines
Optical Profilometer
Optical Profilometer A white-light or confocal profilometer with piezo-driven Z-stage, motorized XY scanning, vibration-isolated base, and software processor for 3D surface topography measurement. 42 parts · 9 BOM lines
Patternless Lens Edger
Patternless Lens Edger Automated lens finishing system with diamond wheels, optical tracing, and cooling that shapes ophthalmic lenses to frame geometry. 57 parts · 8 BOM lines
Periscope An optical viewing instrument using prisms and mirrors to observe objects above eye level or beyond a barrier while remaining hidden. 35 parts · 7 BOM lines
Photo Minilab
Photo Minilab A compact automated printer for photographic prints using laser or LED exposure and chemical processing. 454 parts · 10 BOM lines
Photographic Enlarger
Photographic Enlarger A darkroom projector that shines a controlled light source through a film negative and a high-quality lens to expose an enlarged image onto photographic paper on a baseboard below. 46 parts · 9 BOM lines
Photographic Light Meter
Photographic Light Meter A handheld exposure meter that measures incident or reflected light with a silicon photodiode, computes shutter/aperture/ISO combinations over a 20-stop range, and triggers and reads electronic flash. 93 parts · 8 BOM lines
Planetarium Projector
Planetarium Projector A hemispherical projection system rendering the night sky on a dome ceiling using laser light and fisheye optics with real-time dome geometry correction. 32 parts · 10 BOM lines
Police Body Camera
Police Body Camera A clip-mounted officer recording device with a wide-angle lens, on-board pre-record buffer, GPS location tagging, and a base station for charging and data offload. 189 parts · 9 BOM lines
Portable Photo Printer
Portable Photo Printer A pocket-sized mobile photo printer using ZINK zero-ink technology or dye-sublimation, with a motorized paper cassette, Bluetooth connectivity, and rechargeable battery. 140 parts · 10 BOM lines
Portable Star Tracker A lightweight motorized RA-only wedge mount for camera lenses, tracking the sky smoothly during long exposures with battery power. 26 parts · 10 BOM lines
Profile Projector A benchtop optical projector that magnifies a part silhouette onto a screen for inspection, combining a rotary and X-Y measuring stage, glass-scale readouts, and a CCD edge detector that locates feature edges automatically. 94 parts · 5 BOM lines
Radio Telescope
Radio Telescope Parabolic reflector antenna with motorized altitude-azimuth drive, cryogenic low-noise receiver, and digital correlator for astronomical observations. 104 parts · 8 BOM lines
Rangefinder Binoculars
Rangefinder Binoculars Optical binoculars with integrated laser rangefinder and ballistic reticle processor. 257 parts · 11 BOM lines
Rangefinder Camera
Rangefinder Camera A compact camera with a coupled rangefinder mechanism and fixed lens for fast manual focusing via an optical patch in the viewfinder. 46 parts · 7 BOM lines
Refractor Telescope
Refractor Telescope An optical tube using a multi-element objective lens to form an image, with a focuser, dew shield, and finder scope for planetary and deep-sky observation. 43 parts · 10 BOM lines
Rifle Scope
Rifle Scope A variable-magnification telescopic sight that relays an image through objective, erector, and ocular lens groups inside a sealed nitrogen-purged tube, with click-adjustable turrets that tilt the erector tube to zero the reticle. 49 parts · 9 BOM lines
Roll-Off Roof System A motorized roof structure on rails rolling away from the observation area, protecting instruments during storage while allowing full-sky access during operation. 47 parts · 10 BOM lines
Rotary Laser Level
Rotary Laser Level A self-leveling construction laser that spins a beam through 360 degrees to project a level reference plane across a job site, read by a separate detector. 236 parts · 10 BOM lines
Sidereal Clock Drive
Sidereal Clock Drive A motor-driven tracking mechanism rotating a telescope mount at Earth's rotation rate via synchronous or stepper motor, crystal-oscillator control, and multi-stage gear reduction. 34 parts · 10 BOM lines
Slide Projector
Slide Projector A rotary-tray projector that pushes light from a halogen lamp through condenser optics and a mounted 35mm slide, focusing the image on screen through an interchangeable projection lens while a gravity lifter cycles slides from an 80-slide tray. 182 parts · 10 BOM lines
Solar Telescope
Solar Telescope High-resolution coronagraphic or spectroheliographic telescope observing the solar photosphere and chromosphere with thermal and magnetic filtering. 37 parts · 8 BOM lines
Spectrohelioscope
Spectrohelioscope A specialized solar instrument isolating a single emission line via a diffraction grating and monochromatic slits, with mechanical oscillation to build a wide-field image. 33 parts · 10 BOM lines
Spectroscopic Ellipsometer
Spectroscopic Ellipsometer A spectroscopic ellipsometer with motorized polarizer and analyzer arms, broadband light source, spectrometer detector, and motorized goniometer stage for measuring thin-film optical constants and thickness. 42 parts · 9 BOM lines
Spotting Scope
Spotting Scope A compact high-power monocular telescope for terrestrial viewing, with a zoom eyepiece, an erecting prism, and a nitrogen-purged waterproof body. 31 parts · 9 BOM lines
Stereo Microscope
Stereo Microscope A dual-optical-path stereo microscope with zoom body, wide-field eyepieces, articulating stand with coarse and fine focus, and integrated LED ring illumination. 32 parts · 8 BOM lines
Structured-Light 3D Scanner
Structured-Light 3D Scanner A depth sensor using projected structured light patterns and stereo cameras to compute surface geometry. 373 parts · 10 BOM lines
Terrestrial Laser Scanner A time-of-flight rangefinder on a motorized scanning head, with GNSS and IMU for ground-based 3D survey. 570 parts · 10 BOM lines
Thermal Binoculars Dual-eyepiece binoculars with an uncooled microbolometer thermal camera and OLED display. 267 parts · 10 BOM lines
Thermal Imaging Camera
Thermal Imaging Camera A handheld thermal imager with a germanium IR lens, an uncooled microbolometer focal-plane array, a fused visible-light camera, and a colour LCD touchscreen. 389 parts · 14 BOM lines
Thermal Rifle Scope A rifle-mounted thermal imaging sight with a microbolometer core, digital reticle, and ballistic processor. 311 parts · 10 BOM lines
TLR Camera
TLR Camera A medium-format camera with two lenses of identical focal length: an upper viewing/focusing lens reflecting light to a ground glass hood, and a lower taking lens for film exposure. 44 parts · 7 BOM lines
Traffic Speed Camera
Traffic Speed Camera A roadside enforcement system that measures vehicle speed with radar or lidar, photographs violators with a synchronised flash, reads number plates automatically, and transmits evidential records to a back office. 268 parts · 10 BOM lines
Trail Camera
Trail Camera A battery-powered wildlife camera that sleeps at microamp current until a passive-infrared sensor detects body heat, then wakes in under half a second to capture stills or video using an infrared LED array for night illumination. 266 parts · 10 BOM lines
Underwater Camera Housing
Underwater Camera Housing A pressure-proof enclosure that carries a camera to depth, passing every control through sealed mechanical linkages and presenting interchangeable optical ports to the lens, typically rated to 40–100 m. 118 parts · 9 BOM lines
Vision Measuring Machine
Vision Measuring Machine An industrial vision measuring machine with a granite base, motorized XYZ stages, precision-scale readout, zoom optics with camera, and LED ring illumination for automated dimensional inspection. 36 parts · 8 BOM lines
WiFi IP Camera A compact WiFi surveillance camera with a fixed lens, image sensor, infrared LEDs, microSD recording, and wall-mount bracket. 193 parts · 10 BOM lines
Wireless Follow Focus
Wireless Follow Focus Wireless lens focus system with motorized hand unit, receiver, and precision rod-mounted motor head. 34 parts · 7 BOM lines
Zoetrope
Zoetrope A rotating cylinder with slotted sides that displays a sequence of illustrated strips as animation when spun, creating the illusion of moving figures. 24 parts · 5 BOM lines

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Components ranked by how many of the 100 recorded product BOMs reference the same page, directly or through a sub-assembly. A shared reference does not establish replacement-part compatibility.

  1. Fastener Set in 86 of 100 productsBolts, nuts, and washers.
  2. Connector in 58 of 100 productsMating plug-and-socket pair that joins two lengths of wiring or a cable to a board so a circuit can be assembled, serviced, and separated without soldering.
  3. Bare PCB in 55 of 100 productsUnpopulated printed circuit board: copper traces etched on an FR-4 glass-epoxy laminate that carry current between the components later soldered to it.
  4. Microcontroller in 50 of 100 productsSingle-chip microcontroller combining a processor core, flash memory, RAM, and peripherals such as timers, ADCs, and serial ports to run the device's control firmware.
  5. SMD Passive (R/C/L) in 48 of 100 productsSurface-mount resistors, capacitors, and inductors, typically in 0402 to 1206 packages, that set voltages, filter noise, and time signals on a circuit board.
  6. Wire Bundle in 39 of 100 productsGroup of insulated conductors cut to length, terminated, and bound together to carry power and signals between the assemblies of a machine.
  7. Ball Bearing in 33 of 100 productsDeep-groove radial ball bearing.
  8. O-Ring Set in 31 of 100 productsSet of elastomer rings seated in grooves to seal static or slow-moving joints against fluid and gas, sized to ISO 3601.
  9. Compute SoC Module in 27 of 100 productsSystem-on-chip compute module carrying the application processor, memory, and storage that runs the device's operating system and user interface.
  10. Lens Assembly in 25 of 100 productsMulti-element lens assembly in a barrel that focuses the scene onto the image sensor with a fixed or adjustable focal length.
  11. LCD Panel in 23 of 100 productsLiquid-crystal display module with backlight and driver electronics that shows the machine's readouts, menus, and status to the operator.
  12. Power Supply in 23 of 100 productsUnit that converts mains or battery input into the regulated DC voltages a machine's electronics and actuators need.