The CamAcq class provides a set of methods which give you simple access to the functionality of this package.  The InstrumentController, Camera, AcquisitionController, DataModel, etc. are 'wrapped' by CamAcq so that you can easily use the camera and acquire images.

CamAcq is a 'singleton' (only one instance of it can exist, thus avoiding conflicts with hardware i/o).  So, rather than doing something like this:

you do this:

Then you can call methods like this:

In order to compile and run plugins that use the CamAcq API, it is necessary to have CamAcqJ.jar and a copy of ij.jar in the jre\lib\ext directory.  (ij.jar is necessary because CamAcq classes make reference to ImageJ classes)