Sony blocks are color zoom cameras for video streaming OEM applications.
They are packed with advanced features to get the best out of Sony's most sofisticated sensors.
Some of the most outstanding features and characteristics, according to models, are:
- Wide dynamic range
- Improved visibility (VE: Visibility Enhancer)
- Fog removal (Defog)
- Low distortion
- Noise reduction
- Masks to respect privacy by zones (Private Zone Masking)
- Image stabilization, Super stabilization or Super+ stabilization
- StableZoom (TM)
- Automatic IR cut filter (Auto ICR) according to luminosity
- Auto exposure mode (AE Mode)
- White Balance
- Manual or automatic focus
- Motion detection
- Super resolution zoom (4K)
- High sensitivity (improved on SNY-FCB-Ex9500y models)
- Flare Reduction on SNY-FCB-Ex9500y models with 7-blade iris
- Color image with ICR on (SNY-FCB-Ex9500y models)
- VISCA communications protocol
Sony block cameras are used for video streaming in OEM machine vision applications. Some typical applications are:
- Defense (day camera), surveillance, security
- Driving assistance (civil and military)
- Photo booths
- Pipe and powerline inspection
- Rescue and safety
- Sport events broadcasting and analysis
- Drones, RPAS and unmanned vehicles in general (UAV, UGV, USV,...)
Sony blocks are available in different resolutions: 4K, 4M, FHD and lower.
In this chart you can determine the features and main differences of the SNY-FCB Sony Blocks:
| Basic Specifications | EV9520L | | | EW9500H
(4M-HDMI) | | EV9500M
(FHD-MIPI) | EV9500L
(FHD-LVDS) | | | ER8550 | | ER8530 | | ES8230 | | | ER8300 |
| Sensor | 1/2.8" STARVIS 2 | | | 1/1.8" STARVIS | | | 1/2.5" Exmor R | | | 1.0" Exmor R | | | 1/2.3" Exmor R |
| Resolution | FHD (1920x1080) | | | 4 MP | | | FHD (1920x1080) | | | 8.51 MP | | | 20 MP | | | 8.93 MP |
| Video format | 1080p, 720p | | | 4K, 1080p | | | 1080p | | | 4K, 1080p, 720p, 480p | | | 4K, 1080p, 720p, 480p |
| Sync System | Internal | | | Internal | | | Int / Ext | | | Internal | | | Internal |
| Optical Zoom | 30x | | | 30x | | | 20x | | | 12x | | | 12x |
| Digital Zoom | 12x | | | 12x | | | 12x | | | 12x | | | 12x |
| Super resolution zoom | - | | | - | | | 30x | | | 18x | | | 20x |
| Image Stabilization | Super/Super+ | | | yes | | | yes | | | no |
| General | | | | | | | |
| Power | 7 to 12 VDC | | | 7 to 12 VDC | | | 6 to 12 VDC | | | 6 to 12 VDC |
| Size WxHxD, mm | 50.0 × 60.0 × 89.7 | | | 56.0 x 64.0 x 125 | | | 50.0 × 60.0 × 93.3 | | | 65.1 × 70.0 × 134.8 | | | 60.0 x 64.0 x 105.0 |
| Mass | ~ 239 g | | | ~ 439 g | | | ~ 275 g | | | ~ 520 g | | | ~ 385 g |
The Sony block SNY-FCB-EV7520A is obsolete and so will the SNY-FCB-EV7520 at the end of summer 2023. Alternatively we can offer you the model SNY-FCB-EV9520L.
Ask for compatibility at info@iberoptics.com
Here is a list with the main functions that each SNY-FCB Sony block implements:
| Camera Features | EV9520L | EW9500H-EV9500M-EV9500L | ER8550-ER8530-ES8230 | ER8300 |
| Auto ICR | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Wide Dynamic Range | Yes | Yes | ― | No |
| Visibility Enhancer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Defog | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Noise Reduction | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Image Stabilization | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| StableZoom | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Digital Output | | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Motion Detection | Yes | Yes | ― | Yes |
| Privacy Zone Masking | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Alarm | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Slow AE Response | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Picture Freeze | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Electronic-Flip (E-FLIP) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mirror image | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Slow Shutter | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Temperature Readout | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Title Display | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Camera Mode Display | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| High Light Compensation | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Progressive Scan Mode | Yes | Yes | ― | Yes |
| Boresight improvement | Yes | Yes | ― | ― |
| Improved iris | ― | Yes | ― | ― |
| Super/Super+ image stabilizer | Yes | Yes | ― | ― |
If your application takes place in harsh environments (impacts, vibrations,...) you might be interested in the HarshCam, the ruggedized version of the Sony blocks that resists impacts above 40g during 11 miliseconds without loosing neither zoom nor focus.
This makes it the favorite in optoelectronic and artificial vision systems mounted on tanks, battle tanks and other armored land vehicles (shooting sights, surveillance and shooting turrets, general vision and driving assistance).
Since they have the same external footprint and communications, you can directly replace a Sony block with its corresponding HarshCam without any additional action.
Typical applications of the SNY-FCB color block zoom cameras and other zoom cameras of our catalog:
| Application | FJN-SX800 | FJN-SX1600 | SNY-FCB | TIS-zoom |
| Border and perimeter surveillance | x | x | | |
| Long range surveillance | x | x | | |
| Super long range surveillance | | x | | |
| Security | x | x | x | |
| Defence | x | x | x | |
| Traffic, licence plate recognition (ITS) | x | x | x | x |
| Logistics | | | x | x |
| Industrial machine vision | | | | x |
| Video Conferencing | | | x | |
| Unmanned systems (RPAS, drone, UAV, UGV, UUV) | | | x | |
| Broadcast | | | x | |
| Infrastructure inspection | x | x | x | |
| Adverse light conditions | x | x | x | |
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