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Re: digital cameras

Posted by Cameron Nowell on
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Hi Elaine,

I concur with Peter. I have been using SPOT RT (and Pursuit) Sliders for the last 4 years. They work great, very sensitive for fluorescence and take good quality colour images. Basically you get two cameras in one. The software they use is simple and fairly intuitive to use. I don’t think i have ever had a user say that it was difficult to use.

Cheers

Cam

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From: Confocal Microscopy List [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Peter Pitrone
Sent: Monday, 11 May 2009 4:34 PM
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Subject: Re: digital cameras

Hello Elaine,

I would recommend a SPOT RT Slider, or something similar. It is a Monochrome camera with a bayer filter slider that you can remove for fluorescence. Monochrome cameras are always better for fluorescence (bayer filters always eat a lot of light) with higher Quantum Efficiencies.

Pete

On May 8, 2009, at 8:51 PM, Elaine Kunze wrote:

One of our labs is planning to buy a color digital camera for bright-field and fluorescence pictures. They are considering the PAXcam2+ and Infinity X32. Does anyone have any experience with either of these two color cameras or any other camera suggestions?

Elaine Kunze
Cytometry Facility
Huck Institute of the Life Sciences
319 Life Sciences Building
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802
http://www.huck.psu.edu/facilities/cytometry-up/
814-863-2762

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