Imaging, Microscopy and More
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How TIRF works on a Microscope
TIRF is a widely used tool for effectively creating a super resolution instrument out of a standard widefield microscope. The cool part of TIRF is that it bypasses the limits of axial resolution on the scope not by altering the optics per-se, but by altering what gets excited. In a normal widefield fluorescent microscope, photons…
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Solar Timelapse
This is just amazing… -Austin
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Update on Andor Neo Camera
I had an opportunity to demonstrate the Neo camera on site with a customer yesterday at UC Davis. We captured some great images of GFP tagged pathways on PKC cells. We were able to image the cells at exposures down to 1ms @ 2×2 binning using Metamorph. We were also able to capture extreme fields…
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Neo camera at 100fps
Andor’s Neo camera has been out for about a year now. I first wrote about using it back in February. The camera immediately showed the major difference in field of view between sCmos sensors and traditional interlines quite well, but the speed, binning, sub-array and bias clamp controls weren’t available. Over the past few firmware/SDK…
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Hands on with Imaris Bitplane
During my company sales meeting I had the opportunity to receive training on Imaris Bitplane, which we are now able to sell in our dealership territory. I’ve come across this software package off an on over many years, and have always wanted to get under the hood and check it out. Below is an example…
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SOPA Protests by Google and Wikipedia
Today both Google and Wikipedia have altered their sites to protest SOPA/PIPA. I can’t think of a time before where something like this has galvanized the internet community. I hope the US congress can listen to it’s constituents…
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1,500 users in the past 30 days!
I just wanted to say thanks to all of my readers for helping me generate 1,500 hits on the site!I hope to continue to grow this site as a resource for the microscopy / imaging community in 2012 and beyond! -Austin
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SOPA and the future of the internet
I don’t normally post on political subjects here, but I believe, along with Google and many others in the online community, that the progressing “SOPA” bill carries a major potential for government censorship of speech. A line by line analysis of the bill can be found here ,with other perspectives here and here. I encourage…
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Kickstarter’s 2011 Highlights
I really enjoy browsing Kickstarter projects, both to see what investments are available and also to share in the inspiration and passion of so many inventors and creative thinkers. Here are the 2011 highlights
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Attend a Scientific lecture at the Bar?
Wish they did this in the US. http://www.haaretz.com/culture/israeli-bars-get-smart-as-academia-finds-an-unlikely-late-night-home-1.404331