Re: Zeiss SD

Posted by G. Esteban Fernandez on
URL: http://confocal-microscopy-list.275.s1.nabble.com/Zeiss-SD-tp2303456p2303935.html

I too was intrigued when I saw Zeiss roll out a spinning disk.  We're happy with our 5 LIVE.  Being able to vary the slit aperture size to match different objectives/samples is important in our multi-user facility.  It's also nice to capture two fluorescent channels simultaneously.  I wish the detector on the 5 LIVE were EM-CCD but the regular CCD does the job.  Images sometimes have vertical line artifacts but those are nicely dealt with by Fourier filtering or dividing by a blank image.  Must be lower cost (if that's true) and/or established familiarity of the spinning disk that makes them easy to sell.

 

-Esteban

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Simon Walker <[hidden email]> wrote:

I was interested to see that Zeiss have gone into partnership with Yokogawa
to launch their own flavour of the spinning disk confocal:
http://www.microscopy-analysis.com/news/carl-zeiss-and-yokogawa-launch-
spinning-disk-cell-observer-sd-2008

Does this represent an acknowledgment that the 5-live doesn't do everything
it says on the tin, or just that it's too expensive?  Are there any happy 5-live
users out there?

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University of Missouri
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