On 11/16/10 19:44, Julian Nomme wrote:
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Dear all,
We are investigating the possibility
to upgrade from an old 35mm film camera to a digital camera for taking crystal pictures
through a microscope...
We are using an internet webcam for that purpose, the IQinvision
IQeye3 (probably no longer available, it must be about 8 years old).
It has its own network port and embedded web server. This allows us
to connect to it from any computer on the lab network equipped with
a browser. This circumvents the whole argument over which platforms
are supported, which is nice because usually that question revolves
around Windows vs. Mac, and some of us use Linux.
Another possibility you might consider is a digital microscope. In
this setup, a microscope is built around a camera, with no
eyepieces. The image is viewed on a computer monitor. That means the
optics can be better optimised for the camera, and new features may
be enabled, such as a scale bar overlaid on the images (since the
cameras knows the zoom setting). I don't know if any manufacturer
has ventured yet into digital microscopes with stereovision, or that
are suitable for crystallography.
Cheers,
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