Imaging, Microscopy and More
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Fluorescent Microscope for a Cellphone?
Believe it or not researchers at UC Berkeley found a way to make it happen. It uses a simple excitation diode and emission system, coupled to a cellphone’s camera. They even have some examples of fluroescence! – Austin
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Elements 3.1 Released
Nikon has released it’s major revision of Elements in version 3.1. (Build 587). There are several new features in this build and from what i’ve seen it’s quite stable. You can download the build here. – Austin
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DXM-1200, 1200F and 1200 C Camera Compatibility – FAQ
A few years back Nikon released a very cool 12 megapixel stepping camera, called the DXM-1200. The camera was reliable and a nice product for many years. Unfortunately the march of time made a dent in this camera. The system, like many others, relied upon a proprietary PCI card for transfer of image data to […]
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Video of Human Blood Clotting
I Found this while searching for a fluorophore. Very cool to watch on youtube!! Human Blood Clotting – Austin
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Sensor Size reference Chart
Recently a colleague sent me a link to sensor sizes. Many of these are for consumer cameras, however the general references (1/3′, 2/3″ and so on) are helpful for microscopy cameras. http://www.dpreview.com/news/0210/02100402sensorsizes.asp – Austin
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Pulse Control within NIS Elements 6-D Acquision
These directions will allow user control over an optical configuration to be specified at a given time-loop inside of the define/run experiment. So for instance if one wanted to trigger a shutter or light source to flash un-cage at the beginning of a high-speed acquisition, this would meet the need. These are a bit lengthy […]
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iPhone ResCalc Review
A few weeks ago I purchased an iphone. While browsing apps I found one that we can use in the research community! A company called Zem Dynamics (who also offers FRAP solutions for live cell imaging) has released a small app that can calculate minimum resolvable distance, as well as optimum camera pixel sizes for […]
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Copying Elements Settings for Multiple users
After installing a new imaging system it’s common to receive a phone call or email that goes like this, “The IT guys stopped by today and added our computer to our comany/university network. Now all of our settings are lost!”. Why does this happen and what can be done? All settings for elements are stored […]
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Andor sCMOS
This is a quick post – things are busy! Andor has a white paper and information up on a new “Scientific CMOS” sensor. Have they overcome the limitations to CMOS sensors for Scientific applications? This could really change the landscape for microscopy imaging! – Austin
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Why do I want a low resolution camera?
These days it’s not uncommon to hear about consumer cameras with 10+ megapixel resolution. To the average consumer this seems like a good thing. How can more pixels be anything but good, right? In reality there are several tradeoffs to using more pixels. This is especially true for any scientific imaging (this really applies to […]