The latest digital camera for microscopists from Olympus employs an innovative shifting CCD system together with super-fast hardware processing to give extra high resolution for still images
The latest digital camera for microscopists from Olympus employs an innovative shifting CCD system together with super-fast hardware processing to give extra high resolution for still images - or high speed imaging for easier focusing.
The DP70 user can obtain still images, at a maximum recording size of 4080 x 3072 pixels - an effective resolution of 12.5 million pixels, without interpolation - in approximately three seconds.
In addition a frame rate of 15 frames per second in the live-mode (680 x 512 pixels) allows the user easy focussing with nearly no distortion.
When an image is wholly or partially dark, as is common with fluorescence specimens, the binning function allows preview images to be displayed without delay by combining the light intensity of 2x2 or 4x4 pixel areas.
Each RGB colour can be captured in 12 bit resolution using colour filters to present natural, smoothly graduated colour images.
High sensitivity and low noise is ensured for the faintest of images by Peltier cooling of the CCD chip.
Image control software allows the user to look at the full camera image, then zoom in or move around the image, clipping and saving any part of the image.
A scale on the image provides a reference to the specimen size.
A complete integration into the analySIS software from Soft Imaging System GmbH makes the system perfect for image acquisition, archiving and analysis and rapid transmission of images to co-researchers around the world.
