MATLAB: Am I unable to connect the LEICA FireWire compatible cameras through Image Acquisition Toolbox

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I have two LEICA FireWire cameras, LEICA DFC 350 FX and LEICA DFC 500, that I can connect to the PC using the IEEE 1394 Interface. I have followed the troubleshooting steps described in the documentation.

I am following the steps in the documentation for "Configuring the DCAM Driver", however I receive the following message when I click Finish after updating the driver.

The specified location does not contain information about your hardware

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This is not a bug in Image Acquisition Toolbox. The specifications of the two cameras show that they are both FireWire 1394 cameras; however they are not DCAM cameras.

Furthermore, these cameras support only Twain standard that Image Acquisition Toolbox does not support. Since the cameras are not DCAM compliant, they cannot be supported by Image Acquisition Toolbox.

For a list of hardware supported by the Image Acquistion Toolbox, please refer to:

https://www.mathworks.com/hardware-support/image-acquisition-hardware.html

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The Image Acquisition Toolbox supports connections to IEEE-1394 (FireWire) DCAM-compliant devices using the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) DCAM driver. If the toolbox does not recognize a DCAM camera connected to your computer, most likely the camera has not been configured to use the CMU DCAM driver.

The supported version of the driver is shipped with MATLAB and can be located in the following directory:

$MATLABROOT\toolbox\imaq\imaqextern\drivers\win32\dcam

(where $MATLABROOT is the MATLAB root directory on your machine, as returned by typing

matlabroot

at the MATLAB Command Prompt.)

Be sure to install the CMU DCAM demo application when you install the CMU DCAM driver. To verify your FireWire camera has been successfully configured to use the CMU DCAM driver, try accessing your camera from the CMU demo application. If the CMU demo application can access your DCAM camera, it has been successfully configured and can be used by the toolbox.

For information on configuring your camera to use the CMU DCAM driver, refer to the Troubleshooting section of the Image Acquisition Toolbox documentation:

Troubleshooting (Image Acquisition Toolbox)

http://www.mathworks.com/help/imaq/troubleshooting-1.html

Note the CMU driver strictly adheres to the DCAM specification. The toolbox does not support vendor specific DCAM drivers which frequently offer extensions or modifications to the DCAM specification.

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The Image Acquisition Toolbox requires the Matrox Imaging Library to interface and acquire images from the supported Matrox frame-grabbers.

For a list of supported Matrox frame-grabbers, see the supported hardware section of the Image Acquisition Toolbox product page, found by navigating to:

http://www.mathworks.com/products/imaq/

and clicking on "Supported Hardware".

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