MidOpt in the News

03.22.2010
Jason Dougherty to Speak at The Vision Show
The Director of Marketing for Midwest Optical Systems, Jason Dougherty, will join a panel presenting Advances in LED Lighting and Lighting Techniques at The Vision Show in Boston MA. Starting at 8am on Tuesday, May 25, Jason teams up with Brian Merz of StockerYale, John Merva of Advanced Optics and Matt Pinter of Smart Vision Lights for what is bound to be a major highlight of the show.

11.25.2009
Machine Vision Filter Kit nominated for Vision Award
MidOpt has been nominated once again for the Vision Award. The nomination was for our machine vision Filter Kit (FK100-xx), explained in detail in an article titled Optical Filter Kit Colors Machine Vision by Jason Dougherty, Director of Sales & Marketing. Now in it's 17th year, the Vision Award recognizes the best innovation in machine vision and serves to promote and enhance the development of the machine vision industry and wider acceptance of the technologies being developed.

Download the FK100 Machine Vision Filter Kit (PDF)
Download the 2009 Vision Award article (PDF)

11.09.2009
All-New MidOpt Website Launched
With much fanfare and celebration (we splurged on chocolate milk), we proudly roll out the all-new Midwest Optical Systems' website. Designed from the ground up to provide you with more complete information and better access to details, we hope it will make your decisions easier for specifying machine vision filters, lenses and accessories. Of course, we also hope the new site leads to more sales – that would be nice – but we do have some awesome products that just did not present well in the previous site's format.

The new site will be continually updated and new pages added as they are developed, so check in from time to time. For our dealers and distributors, we have more things in the works to help you inform and educate your clients. Our product lines are constantly growing as technology advances and the website will reflect new additions as they are made available.

Feel free to call, write or send a carrier pigeon with your comments, any errors in the site or, especially, if you have a business need that we can address. Our business is about working with you and paying close attention to your needs.

06.15.2009
Rotating Right Angle Prism
Whether you want to look around a corner or have a unique machine vision system installation that's giving you fits, the all-new Rotating Right Angle Prism from MidOpt may be the solution.

Continuing the innovative product development that MidOpt has become known for since 1988, this adapter screws onto existing lens filter threads, permits viewing at 90º to the optical axis of a lens and camera, and allows stock MidOpt filters to be used. Attaching to smaller lenses can be accommodated through the use of step-up rings. A thumbscrew locks the prism into position, preventing vibration-caused rotation.

04.01.2009
MidOpt releases all new Resource Book
Just in time for The Vision Show in Phoenix (April 2009), Midwest Optical Systems has released an all-new 28-page Resource Book featuring information and details on their full line of machine vision filters, and a complete listing of the Goyo Optics lenses for which they are the exclusive US distributor. The Goyo line adds to their already extensive offering of lenses from the major world manufacturers. The filter section explains types of filters, a comparison between photographic and machine vision filters, and presents sample results to help specifying engineers and integrators understand more about the use of filters to create and enhance contrast.

To obtain a copy of this new resource, simply send an email to us or call 847-359-3550.

01.12.09
A New Name and Logo Design for Midwest Optical Systems
"MidOpt" is the new unofficial name for Midwest Optical, chosen to reflect our web domain name and help make it more memorable. The new logo design was created by our award-winning designer, Peter Birren, to visually establish optical filters as the main core of our business, to draw attention to our focus on details and be a neo-classical update combining traditional elements of the name with a modernized look. The colorful new logo and filter wheel will appear on all company communications, catalog, filter kits, website, product labeling and trade show booth.

10.24.2008
Midwest Optical Systems Nominated for Vision Award
Midwest Optical Systems is nominated for the Vision Award, presented each year at the Vision Show in Stuttgart, Germany. The competition, now in it's 16th year, recognizes the best innovation in machine vision, and hence serves to promote and enhance the development of the machine vision industry and wider acceptance of the technology. The nomination was for a paper submitted by Jason Dougherty, Director of Sales & Marketing titled Optical Filters Designed for Machine Vision.
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04.30.2008
Midwest Optical Systems takes on Goyo Optical lenses
Midwest Optical is now the sole U.S. importer/distributor of Goyo Optical CCTV lenses (in addition to distributing several other manufacturer's lenses). The line is very extensive, quality is excellent, and the pricing is very reasonable. You can peruse the line by visiting www.goyooptical.com and clicking on "Industrial Lenses". Most of those lenses shown are available in limited quantities for same-day shipping from stock.

11.06.2007
New UV Fluorescence Filter Kit announced
Midwest Optical Systems announces its new UV Fluorescence Filter Kit. The kit features mounted filters specifically designed for industrial and scientific vision applications that use UV illumination to excite materials, components or products which emit light in the visible range. Filters are sized for customer needs from 22.5-105mm, provided in a convenient three ring binder that includes transmission curves and data tables to identify the characteristics of each.

Coming Events

November 9-11, 2010
Vision 2010 LINK
Stuttgart, Germany
See us at Booth #6A41

March 21-24, 2011
AUTOMATE LINK
BOOTH #427
McCormick Place, Chicago
Formerly the Int'l Robots, Vision & Motion Control Show