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Commonlands Optics: M12 Lens and C-Mount Lens Finder + Field-of-View Calculator MCP Server

The Commonlands MCP server connects your AI assistant directly to Commonlands lens data, optics calculators, and live product details. This way your assistant can correctly calculate field of view with distortion instead of guessing, incorrectly interpolating, or writing it's own script.

Built for machine vision, embedded vision, robotics, and industrial imaging, the server exposes 22 tools for M12 lens (S-mount lens) and C-mount lens selection. Your assistant can search the lens catalog, match lenses to specific image sensors by active area and image circle, run Commonlands field of view (FOV) calculations, estimate effective focal length (EFL) and pixels per degree, find distortion, and compare candidate part numbers.

Ask it the way you would ask an applications engineer: Find M12 lenses for a 1/2.8" sensor at ~80 degrees horizontal field of view, then verify with the Commonlands field of view calculator. Compare two part numbers for a robotics camera: M12 mount fit, C-mount alternatives, FOV, and low-distortion options. Recommend low-distortion machine vision lenses for a 1/1.8" sensor.

Every answer is source-labeled: fixture catalog, Commonlands calculator, live product read, cart handoff, or engineering review. Before showing any product URL, price, inventory signal, or variant, the assistant reads live Shopify product data, so specs stay accurate.

Commerce is safe by design. Cart tools create, read, and update a cart only after you confirm exact line items and quantities, then return a continue URL for human review and payment. Checkout and order creation are intentionally disabled: the assistant cannot pay, place an order, or bypass storefront review.

Connect in seconds, no OAuth or API key required: URL: https://mcp.commonlands.com/mcp

Works with Claude (web, desktop, mobile), Claude Code, Cursor, Continue, Zed, and any MCP client. Commonlands provides precision M12 lenses and C-mount lenses for machine vision, with same-day shipping from San Diego.

Publisher claimed. 21 tools reported by the publisher. Pod has not connected to this server, so nothing here is verified.

Categorised under other. Published by commonlands.com.

Status

Pod has not dialled Commonlands Optics: M12 Lens and C-Mount Lens Finder + Field-of-View Calculator yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

Tools

Its publisher lists 21 tools. Pod has not verified these against the live server yet.

Connect

A hosted endpoint at https://mcp.commonlands.com/mcp, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

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    "commonlands-optics-m12-lens-and-c-mount-lens-finder-field-of": {
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      "url": "https://mcp.commonlands.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Firsthand observations

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