Mobile phone camera adapters

[darren.thomson]

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Hello All,

Is anyone aware of cell counting solutions like this: http://www.oculyze.de/en/
I'd like to retire an old manual-counting upright OptiPhot that needs constant attention with a digital solution, where we'll collect the images and automate the cell counting ourselves 'in the cloud'. We tried the CASYton counter with little success with fungal spores, where imaging was the most reliable.

The product looks really neat to hold a haemocytometer and replace a microscope for counting cells (fungal spores in our case - 2-3um in diameter).
Oculyze's solutions are in the 1.4-2k EURO mark, which is expensive. I would not like to spend more than £300 on such a project.

What are people's experience with mobile phone camera-adaption devices? I'd appreciate it if adopters of this tech could share their set ups.

Thanks for all your help and input!

Best wishes

Dr Darren Thomson | Experimental Officer
Manchester Fungal Infection Group (MFIG)<http://research.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/mfig>
Tel: (+44) (0)161 306 2457
Email: [hidden email]<mailto:[hidden email]>

[Oshel, Philip Eugene]

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We use a Carson Hookupz 2.0 smart phone optics adapter with our microscopes in our light microscopy class. £45-56 on amazon UK. Some microscope supply companies also sell these, but I don’t see them charging less than amazon.

Fiddly to set up, but holds most sizes smart phones, even phablets. Side benefit means the user provides the camera, and many smart phone cameras actually take pretty good images through a microscope’s ocular.
Cheap enough to try.

Phil
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Philip Oshel    
Imaging Facility Director
Biology Department
1304 Biosciences
1455 Calumet Ct.
Central Michigan University
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859
989 774-3576 office
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Subject: Mobile phone camera adapters

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Hello All,

Is anyone aware of cell counting solutions like this: http://www.oculyze.de/en/
I'd like to retire an old manual-counting upright OptiPhot that needs constant attention with a digital solution, where we'll collect the images and automate the cell counting ourselves 'in the cloud'. We tried the CASYton counter with little success with fungal spores, where imaging was the most reliable.

The product looks really neat to hold a haemocytometer and replace a microscope for counting cells (fungal spores in our case - 2-3um in diameter).
Oculyze's solutions are in the 1.4-2k EURO mark, which is expensive. I would not like to spend more than £300 on such a project.

What are people's experience with mobile phone camera-adaption devices? I'd appreciate it if adopters of this tech could share their set ups.

Thanks for all your help and input!

Best wishes

Dr Darren Thomson | Experimental Officer
Manchester Fungal Infection Group (MFIG)<http://research.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/mfig>
Tel: (+44) (0)161 306 2457
Email: [hidden email]<mailto:[hidden email]>

[Ryan Schreiner]

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Darren,

For the iPhone you can try the LabCam
https://www.ilabcam.com/collections/all

The latest versions optical elements are rather good and it sells for less
than $300.

-Ryan

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 8:06 AM Oshel, Philip Eugene <[hidden email]>
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> We use a Carson Hookupz 2.0 smart phone optics adapter with our
> microscopes in our light microscopy class. £45-56 on amazon UK. Some
> microscope supply companies also sell these, but I don’t see them charging
> less than amazon.
>
> Fiddly to set up, but holds most sizes smart phones, even phablets. Side
> benefit means the user provides the camera, and many smart phone cameras
> actually take pretty good images through a microscope’s ocular.
> Cheap enough to try.
>
> Phil
> -------------
> Philip Oshel
> Imaging Facility Director
> Biology Department
> 1304 Biosciences
> 1455 Calumet Ct.
> Central Michigan University
> Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859
> 989 774-3576 <(989)%20774-3576> office
> 989 774-7567 <(989)%20774-7567> lab
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Confocal Microscopy List <[hidden email]> on
> behalf of Darren Thomson <[hidden email]>
> Reply-To: Confocal Microscopy List <[hidden email]>
> Date: Thursday,  15February, 2018 at 07:04
> To: "[hidden email]" <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Mobile phone camera adapters
>
> *****
> To join, leave or search the confocal microscopy listserv, go to:
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>
> Hello All,
>
> Is anyone aware of cell counting solutions like this:
> http://www.oculyze.de/en/
> I'd like to retire an old manual-counting upright OptiPhot that needs
> constant attention with a digital solution, where we'll collect the images
> and automate the cell counting ourselves 'in the cloud'. We tried the
> CASYton counter with little success with fungal spores, where imaging was
> the most reliable.
>
> The product looks really neat to hold a haemocytometer and replace a
> microscope for counting cells (fungal spores in our case - 2-3um in
> diameter).
> Oculyze's solutions are in the 1.4-2k EURO mark, which is expensive. I
> would not like to spend more than £300 on such a project.
>
> What are people's experience with mobile phone camera-adaption devices?
> I'd appreciate it if adopters of this tech could share their set ups.
>
> Thanks for all your help and input!
>
> Best wishes
>
> Dr Darren Thomson | Experimental Officer
> Manchester Fungal Infection Group (MFIG)<
> http://research.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/mfig>
> Tel: (+44) (0)161 306 2457 <+44%20161%20306%202457>
> Email: [hidden email]<mailto:
> [hidden email]>
>
>

[Sathya Srinivasan]

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Hi Darren,
Here is another product where they sell microscope phone adapters:

https://novagrade.com/shop/phone-adapter-microscope-edition/


The listed price is 149 USD. They have contacts in US, Canada, Belgium and
Sweden.

No commercial interest and good luck.

Sathya Srinivasan

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 4:04 AM, Darren Thomson <
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>
> Hello All,
>
> Is anyone aware of cell counting solutions like this:
> http://www.oculyze.de/en/
> I'd like to retire an old manual-counting upright OptiPhot that needs
> constant attention with a digital solution, where we'll collect the images
> and automate the cell counting ourselves 'in the cloud'. We tried the
> CASYton counter with little success with fungal spores, where imaging was
> the most reliable.
>
> The product looks really neat to hold a haemocytometer and replace a
> microscope for counting cells (fungal spores in our case - 2-3um in
> diameter).
> Oculyze's solutions are in the 1.4-2k EURO mark, which is expensive. I
> would not like to spend more than £300 on such a project.
>
> What are people's experience with mobile phone camera-adaption devices?
> I'd appreciate it if adopters of this tech could share their set ups.
>
> Thanks for all your help and input!
>
> Best wishes
>
> Dr Darren Thomson | Experimental Officer
> Manchester Fungal Infection Group (MFIG)<http://research.bmh.
> manchester.ac.uk/mfig>
> Tel: (+44) (0)161 306 2457
> Email: [hidden email]<mailto:darren.thomson@
> manchester.ac.uk>
>