Re: ISO recommendations
- From: Gary G <see.signature@bottom>
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 19:36:38 -0700
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:26:08 -0700, "Workgroups"
<noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I'm on the IT staff at an anatomic pathology laboratory. To keep up with
>the Jones', our doctors & marketing dept. have decided to start putting
>microscopic images out on our path reports.
>
>The quality doesn't need to be stellar (I.e. 5.0mp+ is overkill) -
>ultimately we just need to get a faithfuly colored reproduction of the slide
>onto the report (prints @ 300 dpi and image is only about 320x240).
>
>Initially we messed around with a company called Motic and bought a couple
>of their "moticam 1000", a cheap little 1.3mp CMOS job that mounts over an
>eyepiece. Quality was borderline (but acceptable), but the camera interface
>was not user friendly and as a programmer, it is in my professional opinion
>a *miserable* excuse for an camera application. I took a few days to create
>a custom front-end for the camera, but without an SDK for the hardware
>(which I think is actually different across the two cameras they sent us)
>there was only so much I could do.
>
>I want to seek out some alternative solutions that are perhaps a bit higher
>quality, maybe some CCD sensor cams that are minimum 1.3mp+, but tame enough
>to stay around the $1k mark. If there's a company out there providing
>hardware like this with an SDK for internal development that would be
>absolutely perfect, but even adequate bundled software would be great.
>
>TIA
>
The Pixera 150ES might work for you. It is un-cooled and is 1.5M
pixels. It has a great user interface and also has an SDK (via NDA)
for custom work. but I'm not sure why you would need it, given the
features of the native interface GUI app.
This camera needs a trinoc photo port and suitable adapter for your
microscope. Unfortunately, the pricing is outside your envelope.
Perhaps you should look at prosumer digicams and deal with this sort
of product.
Gary Gaugler, Ph.D.
Microtechnics, Inc.
Granite Bay, CA 95746
916.791.8191
gary@microtechnics dot com
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