Hi,
I am working with two Specim Hyperspectral cameras (FX17 and FX10). With Genicam browser I can see live stream and save images with mono12 pixel format. Then I am saving the configuration.
In my code I am using function: (WriteImageFile(camera.getCvbImage().get(), bitmapPath.str().c_str()) , to save images. The function is only saving the images when I set pixel format to 8-bit, otherwise it doesn’t work. Is there any option to save mono12 or perhaps 16-bit image with 4MSB as 0000?
Getting images manually from Genicam browser is not an option because I have customized GUI and stepper motor etc…
any help is appreciated 
Hi @Saad
I do not know with which file extension you want to save the images and which CVB Version you are using!
Considering you need more than 8 bit per pixel I would recommend to use .tif. Generally there is no problem with saving images containing more than 8 bit pixels. The image that you saved may look dark in the monitor because most of the monitors in the market are designed to display 8-bit images. To have a better view of hight-bit images you can use the “Common Vision Blox Viewer software” automatically installed with CVB installation and set the “high bit scale mode” to viewPort:
Regardless of the pixel format setting, GenICam browser always saves the images as a 8-bit format, the idea here is to save the images as they appear in the display.
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Thanks @MandanaS
.tif suggestion worked. In addition to that I set pixel format in genicam browser to ‘mono16’ and ‘mono12 packed’ for FX10 and FX17, respectively. And in driver configuration, both cameras were set to mono16
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