All good points. Yes, they are Genicam compatible. As it turns out, they don’t carry a 5K version with a Sony sensor so it doesn’t really make sense to go all in on Ximea.
The more I learn about these cameras, the more I’m seeing that they’re all basically the same. Same sensors in a simlar case, with SDK’s wrapped around Genicam.
The difference is onboard firmware and any proprietary additions to the SDK.
Still researching but I got a free demo unit from Ximea to play around with so I’m going to test it out.