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Hi Andreas,
The HP ZR30w monitor is great, especially in a dark room. Current
amazon.com price is $1,128, which I do not consider that expensive.
I standardized onsingle or dual ZR30w's while I managed a core in Miami,
and now have a dual ZR30w on my lab's main microscope here in Houston.
Being in a darkened microscope room also helps compared to offices with
overhead fluorescent lighting, windows, etc.
George
On 6/13/2013 9:52 AM, Andreas Bruckbauer wrote:
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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.
>
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George McNamara, Ph.D.
Single Cells Analyst
L.J.N. Cooper Lab
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX 77054