Agilent Technologies Introduces Industry’s Brightest and Smallest Auto-Focus Auxiliary LED Flash for Digital Still Cameras

Agilent Technologies Introduces Industry's Brightest and Smallest Auto-Focus Auxiliary LED Flash for Digital Still Cameras

Agilent Technologies Inc. has introduced a high-brightness LED (light-emitting diode) specifically designed to provide the illumination required to operate the automatic focus function of a digital still camera under low-light conditions, and at a range up to 3 meters.

Lamp Enables Auto-Focusing in Low-Light Conditions at Distances up to 3 Meters

With a typical light output of 18 candela (at 20 mA) the Agilent ASMT-FJ10 is the brightest auto-focus LED on the market. With dimensions of 4.80 mm length x 4.80 mm width, it also features the industry’s smallest package footprint.

In the past, cameras used infrared-emitting LEDs as the light source for auto-focusing under low-light conditions because only IR LEDs provided sufficient light output for the application. The use of visible light means that the same auto-focusing sensor is used under both low-light and ordinary conditions, whereas IR requires a separate sensor. Since the orange 612nm LED provides visible illumination, the same device can also be used as a red-eye reduction lamp and serve as an indicator that the camera’s self-timer is operating.