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Hi Andreas
Assuming that your PC or MAC monitors are set to 32-bit true-colour under
Display, Adjust Resolution, Advanced Settings (windows 7), the problem is
probably the PC monitor isn't set up correctly (colour, brightness,
contrast). I'd get an x-rite i1 Display Pro professional display calibration
device to calibrate your office monitors (xritephoto.com) - it costs about
£150 and can generally calibrate all your screens automatically assuming
they are fairly modern (the sensor unit rests on the monitor and adjusts it
all correctly for you). Then in theory all your PC monitors will be
calibrated to display colours correctly, so the image should look similar on
any of them, subject to the basic quality of the monitor. I'd also
investigate the likes of a £400 2560x1440 pixel 27" Dell U2713HM IPS screen
monitor for your main office Windows PC which can display 1024x1024 confocal
images natively at 1 pixel per 1 pixel. Use Zen/LSM Image Browser to view
your Zeiss raw lsm confocal files to ensure the software isn't down-sampling
the image in some way. I doubt the graphics card is the problem, assuming
it's fairly modern graphics card/GPU and it's been setup correctly.
Regards
Keith
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We noticed that our confocal images look amazing (fine details well
resolved) as long as they are viewed with the monitor belonging to the
microscope, but as soon as we open them on our PCs or Macs they look just
normal (fine detail missing).
The monitor at the Zeiss mic is a HP ZR30W a pretty expensive model. It
seems to support 32 bit colours which would give 12 bit or 4096 grey steps
for each of the primary colours. Not sure if this is the secret behind the
good looking images but has anyone experience using such monitors to display
images? I would think that the graphic card, operating system and image
analysis software have to be capable of doing so, which programs would do
this?
Did i miss an important development in computer hardware or is there another
reason for the amazing looking images? Any suggestions welcome.