Machine Vision market surveys mostly address economic aspects and naturally try to cover all facets and technologies of the field. Single technical aspects can very rarely be looked deeper into for risk of otherwise blasting the survey out of proportion. However, for ­suppliers and users of vision components and products it is of equally high interest to learn which ­features are demanded today and which are the trends of the future. For the product class of cameras, which according to the annual EMVA study is at 30 % turnover share the biggest component sub-group for machine vision products, a survey was now conducted to cover these technical aspects. The survey was designed and executed by Framos Imaging Solution, Munich, in close cooperation with the INSPECT.