Not recommended for new designs, industrial Allied Vision legacy Guppy series FireWire400 1394a cameras were designed to be compact, lightweight, and cost-effective scientific and industrial cameras. Guppy cameras are equipped with high quality Sony or ON Semi/Aptina CCD or CMOS sensors. Guppy NIR camera models feature enhanced near infrared (NIR) light sensitivity for a wide variety of applications requiring imaging beyond the human-visible spectrum. The versatile Guppy FireWire camera is suitable for a wide variety of machine vision and scientific imaging applications.