Re: New microscope for DIC brightfield and darkfield imaging

Software, either AnalySIS (Olympus) or ImagePro (Nikon)
Cameras: CIII (Olympus AnalySIS) or Qimaging micropublisher (ImagePro/
Nikon)

Before buying any software, I would encourage you to download a copy of
ImageJ and spend some time with it. It is free, multiplatform (runs under
MacOS, OSX, Win98-Vista, linux, even the Zaurus PDA. It is fast, large
number of plugins (that you can also write in Java), a simple to learn
macro language scripting, etc.
There are a number of cameras that have plugins written for ImageJ (one of
them is the QImaging, plugin is Win only, but there are others).

-G-

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