In situations like this pastry cook training, it would be impossible to place everything the audience is supposed to see on a working surface of a "Desktop Visualizer".

A Ceiling Visualizer is the ideal solution for such applications.

Other advantages compared to "Desktop" Visualizers:

- Visualizer can be completely hidden in a suspended ceiling
- No cables from the table to the ceiling
- Objects can be even larger and higher
- Fix installed unit can hardly be stolen

WolfVision's Ceiling Visualzers come with their own ceiling mounts. The height of the ceiling mount is only 40mm (1.6").

To suspend the Visualizer from the ceiling (in order to get bigger enlargements), any standard ceiling mount for projectors can be used. The Ceiling Visualizers have flexible fixings which will fit with almost any brand.

The automatic height adjustment mode allows easy installation and also offers the possibility to expand the optical zoom range with a height adjustable table or ceiling mount.

A key feature of WolfVision's Professional and Ceiling Visualizer series is the Synchronized Lightfield. This popular feature is a special patent of WolfVision and thus can only be found on WolfVision's Visualizers.

A lightfield, the size of the pick-up area of the built-in camera is projected onto the working surface. The illuminated part of the working surface is always identical to the pick-up area of the camera. When zooming in and out, the size of this lightfield changes accordingly.

This allows very easy positioning of objects. There is no need to look at a monitor. Just place the object in the illuminated portion of the working surface!

This is the key new feature of the latest Ceiling Visualizer models VZ-C32 and VZ-C12².

New lenses with very large zoom range allow for the installation of Ceiling Visualizers in rooms with differing heights. The units can pick up larger objects and zoom in closer, than the previous Ceiling Visualizer models.

Use the following links to calculate distance and image sizes:

Distance / Zoom range calculation program
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The high end scaler of the Visualizers can scale the picture at the image source. As a result the picture quality is not only perfect in native resolution, but also in all scaled signal formats.

The high end scaler can scale the picture at the image source. As a result the picture quality is not only perfect in the native resolution, but also in all scaled signal formats.

The native signal output of the Visualizers has an aspect ratio of 4:3. The native 4:3 image can also be output in the following additional 16:9 and 16:10 widescreen formats: 720p HD (High Definition), 1080p HD (both at 50 or 60 Hz), WXGA and WSXGA+.

All widescreen projectors, monitors or plasma displays on the market can display at least one of these standards.

If new standards come up in the future, WolfVision will be there with Firmware Updates!

"Motion" used to be the weakness of Progressive Scan cameras. Until recently they could only pick up 15 or less pictures per second. A low number of pictures per second often resulted in a disturbing strobe effect on the screen, whenever something was moved in the picture or when adjusting the zoom or iris.

WolfVision's Progressive Scan Visualizers could always pick up at least 20 pictures per second, which is very important for showing motion in good quality.

WolfVision Visualizers have always been famous for their perfect colors. The outstanding color precision even meets the high requirements of the sRGB standard.

Click here for more information on sRGB color precision.

WolfVision's Visualizers are the only units on the market that offer upgradeable firmware. This allows new features and technical improvements to be added at no cost!

Downloading firmware updates from the internet and uploading them onto a Visualizer can be done in 2-3 minutes, with just 4 mouse clicks, using the latest version of WolfVision's Connectivity Software.

The professional telezoom lenses of the WolfVision's Professional and Ceiling Visualizers feature very high depth of focus.High depth of focus is very important for working with larger 3-dimensional objects. Even at high magnification, they are always sharp from top to bottom. No other unit on the market comes close to the extremely high depth of focus of WolfVision's Professional and Ceiling Visualizers.

The Visualizers are equipped with a One-Push-Autofocus. However due to the great depth of focus, it is rarely necessary to adjust the focus.

As the camera and the light projector are situated side by side within the Visualizer and follow the same path, shadows are almost completely eliminated.During a presentation, it is often necessary to write something on a document on the working surface or to point to a certain detail with a finger or a pencil.

The Visualizers are perfectly suited for this, as there is practically no shadow covering up important details.

Due to the special light system of the Visualizer, every part of the recorded picture is always perfectly illuminated. Hollow objects or complex 3-D objects are always completely illuminated - even on the inside.

As a result, there is never a need for adjustment of the light.

Thus the whole working surface is always 100% reflection free.

No light adjustment is necessary in order to avoid disturbing reflections on glossy material (photos, transparencies, etc.)

The USB port of the Visualizer can be used to transfer images from a Visualizer to a computer and save them in JPG, TIF or BMP format. This way, Visualizers can be used as scanners for 3-dimensional objects.

WolfVision Visualizers are equipped with a fast USB 2.0 port. This allows for uploading images onto a PC in a fraction of a second.

Connecting slower computers with the older USB 1.1 standard is also no problem. It still takes only a small fraction of the time a desktop scanner requires to scan an image.

WolfVision's USB Software (Connectivity Software) works under Windows 2000, XP and Vista and is fully Twain compatible. This is important when using Visualizers in connection with popular graphic programs such as Photoshop, or for connecting them to Interactive Whiteboards (Smart Boards). A USB Software for Apple Macintosh is also available. Click here for a detailed description of the WolfVision Connectivity Software

The fast USB 2.0 port can also output live motion. The WolfVision Connectivity Software can store AVI-files and includes a video capture driver. You can view and save the live image from the Visualizer on your computer in almost every modern video editing software.

The Visualizer is equipped with an Ethernet (LAN) port (10/100 Mbps). It is IP-addressable, so that it can be integrated into a computer network and controlled from any computer in the network. It can even be controlled over the internet, if it is assigned an official (WAN) IP-address.The network/LAN-port has become a key feature of all high-end Visualizers from WolfVision in recent years. Many new network features have been developed and most of them can also be added to older units via Firmware Updates.

Check out the accessories page, for information about lightboxes.

Transparencies can be picked up in perfect quality on the supplied crystalline white working plate of the Ceiling Visualizers. For x-rays and slides, an external lightbox is required.

A big advantage of the Ceiling Visualizers in the medical field, is that it can also pick up the largest x-rays. For this purpose, WolfVision offers the very large optional Lightbox LB-38. The size of the lit area is 430 x 359mm (16.9" x 14.1"). The unit has a very elegant appearance and is very thin (only 14mm / 0.6").

The big advantage of a Ceiling Visualizer in a video conferencing application is that it is completely invisible to the audience. As you can see in the illustration on the left, documents can be picked up on the table, directly in front of the speaker.

This is much more convenient than with a "desktop visualizer", which always has to be placed at an acceptable distance to the speaker. Otherwise it could disturb the visual contact between camera/monitor and speaker.

WolfVision's camera electronics produce a very strong and stable picture, which is very important when a Visualizer is used as a document camera for videoconferencing systems. The even lighting, smooth auto iris and perfect focus are very important features, enabling video conferencing systems to digitize and transfer the picture from a WolfVision Visualizer much faster than pictures from other document cameras. Furthermore there is no blinding stray light from a WolfVision Visualizer, which could disturb the auto iris of the room camera.

Of course these features are equally important for live image presentations with a data projector and for other Visualizer applications. The Visualizer also supplies the proper signal for modern widescreen videoconferencing systems.

This can be used for a "Live Picture to Freeze Picture Comparison" on two monitors or screens with just one Visualizer.

While one monitor or screen displays a "freeze" image that can be used for comparison, another monitor or screen can be used for presenting the live image from the Visualizer.

The user has the opportunity to store 9 images and recall them by just pressing one of the numerical keys on the infrared remote control.

By pressing the "All" key, a split image with all 9 pictures of the memory can be displayed, enabling easy selection. The 9 pictures in the memory can also be downloaded to a PC via USB and they remain in the memory even when the power is disconnected.

WolfVision Visualizers offer many possibilities to improve the readability of text.With the "Text Enhancer" function, the outstanding contrast of the picture is improved even more with colors only slightly darker than before.

Dark text on a bright background can sometimes be easier to read if the Visualizer is switched to "Negative" or "Negative/Blue".