Perfect Images

SOFTHARD cameras with associated Imaging Hardware and Software always deliver unparalleled image quality and unbeatable price to performance ratio for the most demanding industrial and scientific applications.

Where a Standard Camera or Imaging product does not satisfy all customer’s constraints or requirements, SOFTHARD designs, develops and fabricates a solution which fully matches the needs of the target application. First class customer care, flexible project management, effective communication and deeply knowledgeable design and production teams bring brilliant and unique solutions each time.

Delivering complete End-to-End solutions, SOFTHARD refines its complete in-house research-development-production chain. Mastering of all relevant technologies in a single place allows us to achieve remarkable productivity for widest area of custom specific imaging needs.

Whatever target application or specific imaging product requirements are, SOFTHARD team is ready to engage.

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Max Larin,
Director
SOFTHARD Technology Ltd.

Mission:

  • Enable real world application of latest achievements in imaging and related technologies
  • Bridge customer’s requirements with today’s state of the art signal acquisition, processing and transmission technologies
  • Assist customers to capture more than greatest ambient and scientific events

Philosophy:

  • Hierarchy-less, friendly and “feel like home” working environment
  • Facilitate employee personal development
  • Organic grow of human and technology potentials
  • Enforce continuous grow and evolution of tools and machinery park
  • Paradigm of Zero management overhead
  • Focus on building long term partnerships

Milestones:

  • 1992 - Incepted by 4 research engineers
  • 1993 - Engaged in developments for advanced Electron Microscopy and Crystallography studies
  • 1994 - company shrunk down to two people
  • 1994 - PCI based frame grabber
  • 1995 - Implemented Fast Fourier Transform running in real time on the first Pentium PCs
  • 1997 - first camera build on Philips FT18 CCD
  • 1998 - Sony ICX085 based cooled camera
  • 2001 - Firewire based cooled cameras
  • 2002 - First employee, head count is 3 people
  • 2003 - advanced color interpolation algorithm
  • 2004 - High speed imaging module with Full CameraLink and GigE interfaces
  • 2005 - Linux and Multi DSP imaging platform
  • 2006 - second generation of Firewire cameras with real time features
  • 2007 - USB cameras
  • 2008 - world smallest liquid cooled 11Mpix camera – 55mm diameter, 16mm thickness
  • 2008 - engineering core team 9 people plus production staff
  • 2009 - ATOM Based Smart Cameras Introduced
  • 2009 - CameraExpress standard drafted and published

Facts:

  • No external investors, 100% self funded
  • Highly motivated, multi-talented team
  • Owns design, testing and production tools and machinery
  • IP portfolio worth of several man-year decades
  • Customer’s portfolio of worldwide industry leaders
  • Several thousand of cameras sold every year