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Engineered to Perform

Find the Ideal Lens for Your Project
Kowa offers a comprehensive range of lenses, spanning a wide variety of focal lengths, mounts, and sensor formats. Choose from specialized options including high-resolution, ruggedized, waterproof, radiation-resistant, telecentric, NIR, SWIR, and IR-Corrected models. To streamline your search, use our lens filter tool to quickly narrow down the best match for your technical requirements.

Power Your Vision Systems with Kowa’s Precision Harsh Environment Cameras
Kowa is a leading Japanese manufacturer of high-performance machine vision industrial cameras. Our advanced optics and ruggedized imaging solutions are designed to deliver exceptional clarity and reliability, empowering applications in aerospace, automation, ITS, motion capture, security, and beyond.

Custom Solutions
With over 75 years of optical expertise, Kowa supports everything from lens, camera, and system modifications to fully bespoke configurations. Specifications are seamlessly integrated at every stage, from concept development and prototyping to manufacturing and quality assurance. Kowa delivers premium-grade optical components and assemblies that meet the highest standards of consistency, quality, and real-world performance.
Technology Tailored for Every Application

MACHINE VISION
Enhance the capability of your machine vision systems with Kowa lenses and cameras engineered for high accuracy, durability, and uniform results in inspection, measurement, and factory automation. Well-suited for quality control, precision alignment, defect detection, and high-speed analysis in demanding industrial environments.

ROBOTICS
Kowa lenses and cameras bring visual intelligence to automated platforms, enabling precise positioning, real-time decision making, and reliable performance in dynamic commercial operations. Perfect for tasks like pick-and-place, part alignment, pathfinding, and motion control in factory automation and collaborative robot workflows.

SECURITY AND SURVEILLANCE
Safeguard critical infrastructure, facilities, and personnel with Kowa lenses and cameras designed for mission-critical monitoring across both short-range and long-range scenarios. Featuring motorized zoom, focus, and iris controls, these products enable quick targeting beyond 3 km. Equipped with high transmission optics, including NIR, SWIR, and IR-Corrected elements, they produce consistent, superior imaging in low-light and nighttime conditions.

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
Kowa optimizes ITS by providing lenses and cameras with low distortion, wide-angle coverage, high-resolution imaging at longer distances, and NIR compatibility with IR-Correction. These features offer key advantages for vehicle identification, traffic enforcement, and infrastructure monitoring, making them highly effective in scenarios such as license plate recognition, red light violation detection, toll collection, multi-lane tracking, and smart city traffic management.

BROADCAST AND CINEMA
Elevate your production standards with Kowa’s professional-grade lenses, crafted to render stunning visuals with outstanding sharpness, vibrant color accuracy, edge-to-edge uniformity, and rich contrast. Widely adopted by leading studios and filmmakers worldwide.
Trusted by Engineers and Industry Professionals
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"We really rely on Kowa because of the quality of the lenses and because they offer a really broad portfolio."
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"What we really like is you have very special focal lengths and lenses that you don't find in the normal market."
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"We appreciate your development and constant base of technology, every year we see new things from your factory."
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