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This camera will complement an already installed equivalent horizontal system to enable 2D tomographic reconstruction of the plasma soft x-ray emissivity at different energies. The two cameras employ two identical PILATUS3 pixelated x-ray detectors, in which the lower energy threshold for photon detection can be adjusted independently on each pixel in the range of 2\u201321\u00a0keV. Energy-resolved measurements are used to infer impurity concentrations, effective charge (Zeff), electron temperature, plasma centroid position, and radiated power density. With the installation of the vertical camera, all these quantities will be determined in 2D and possibly in real time. This contribution presents the design of the vertical camera. The detector is mounted inside a retractable stainless steel vacuum chamber, which is inserted into a re-entrant sleeve installed on a vertical port. 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