You will need a camera that you can manually wire to send synchronizing pulses to the NIDAQ system in order to synchronize video frames with neural data later.
You will need a camera, lens, power supply, mount, I/O cable with bare ends, data cable, tripod mount, and computer.
Supplier: Allied Vision cameras work with NIDAQ systems. This protocol explains how to wire an Allied Vision camera for this purpose.
Camera: Get a high enough resolution & frame rate for your project. Some cameras can adjust their settings so you can capture lower resolution at higher frame rates and vice versa. C(S)-mount refers to the lens attachment. C-mount cameras can take C or CS lenses, but CS-mount cameras can only take CS lenses.
Lens: The greater the focal length, the greater the zoom. Use this tool (https://www.baslerweb.com/en/products/tools/lens-selector) to estimate lens size based on camera to object distance and the size of the field. E.g. open field camera might use a 6mm lens, while a pupil camera might use a 24mm lens. Power supply: whatever the camera needs. You may be able to power the camera through the data cable.
I/O cable with bare ends: This sends signals to the camera to start/stop capturing and receives signals of frame times.
Data cable: GigE (Cat6 cable) & USB are the most common. GigE is generally better over distances >5m.
Mounting: Attach to 80/20 by screwing into a tripod mount.
Computer: If you don't need real-time control, then just get a tower with enough SSD space to store your videos. If using GigE, make sure you get one that has PCIe cards to fit the Intel network adapter, and also get a PCIe Desktop Adapter.