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I think I know what is going on if you are using ZEN; the reason the images look so good is because you have interpolation ON. Look in the maintain tab of Zen, LSM options, under Image Display.
If you want your images to look exactly like they do on the monitor, you need to export the image as "contents of Image Window".
Hope it helps,
Brian Hagen
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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.