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My inquiry relates to whether the anticipated purchase of the following camera through Optronics/Olympus for phase contrast microscopy would be compatabile with the ImageJ software. The camera specifications are: OMICROFR S99809:MICROFIRE DIGITAL COLOR CAMERA, 2MPIXEL, FIREW OPTRONIC Price: $5520.75 before tax inclusive of a 15% discount The file formats are: tiff, jpg, and bmp Microscope: Olympus CX41 RF-5 Problem: the blood storage lesion Specimen: refrigerated live red blood cells (RBCs) Microscopy: study of RBC morphology inclusive of cell perimeters areas, and form factors. Thank you. Cordially, Jeffrey S. Putter, M.D. Medical Director Medical Biomechanics Inc. 100 E. San Marcos Blvd., Suite 400 San Marcos, CA 92069 Tel.: 760.751.0928 Fax: 760.751.0938 Email: [hidden email] |
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 05:21, Jeffrey S. Putter, M.D. wrote:
> My inquiry relates to whether the anticipated purchase of the following > camera The camera specifications are: > OMICROFR > S99809:MICROFIRE DIGITAL COLOR CAMERA, 2MPIXEL, FIREW > OPTRONIC > > Price: $5520.75 before tax inclusive of a 15% discount I think this is a bit expensive for a 2MPixel firewire camera. Is this camera special in any sense? In the UK you can buy a QImaging 3.3 MPixel for less than that, and it has a (not that great) plugin that works in IJ for Win 2000/XP. Support for IJ in linux (as far as I know) is inexistent for any camera I have been able to find (to manufacturers: hint, hint!). I suggest to do a bit of research in the IJ site and see what cameras are already supported in IJ. It also may be useful to find out what the camera manufacturer policy is regarding "hot pixels", so you are not disappointed if you find that there are too many "bright (hot) pixels" in the images. Cheers, G. |
Thank you for the input from Gabriel Landini, which is quite productive
for me. I shall scrutinize the ImageJ site for potential compatible cameras to ImageJ software. I did not know about the hot pixel problem and will inquire. Regarding the QImaging 3.3 MPixel camera, what was the nature of your problem with the plugin? As cost and budget for the camera are clearly important, I shall review this matter further with my blood component research collaborator in London, UK. We know the exchange rates between the USA and Canada and can compare prices. Cheers, Dr. Putter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gabriel Landini" <[hidden email]> To: <[hidden email]> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 2:13 AM Subject: Re: ? of compatability of camera with ImageJ software > On Tuesday 19 December 2006 05:21, Jeffrey S. Putter, M.D. wrote: >> My inquiry relates to whether the anticipated purchase of the following >> camera The camera specifications are: >> OMICROFR >> S99809:MICROFIRE DIGITAL COLOR CAMERA, 2MPIXEL, FIREW >> OPTRONIC >> >> Price: $5520.75 before tax inclusive of a 15% discount > > I think this is a bit expensive for a 2MPixel firewire camera. > Is this camera special in any sense? > > In the UK you can buy a QImaging 3.3 MPixel for less than that, and it has > a > (not that great) plugin that works in IJ for Win 2000/XP. > Support for IJ in linux (as far as I know) is inexistent for any camera I > have > been able to find (to manufacturers: hint, hint!). > > I suggest to do a bit of research in the IJ site and see what cameras are > already supported in IJ. > > It also may be useful to find out what the camera manufacturer policy is > regarding "hot pixels", so you are not disappointed if you find that there > are too many "bright (hot) pixels" in the images. > > Cheers, > > G. > > |
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 03:25, Jeffrey S. Putter, M.D. wrote:
> Regarding the QImaging 3.3 MPixel camera, what was the nature of > your problem with the plugin This was discussed recently; it is not a problem, it's just not as good as it could/should be. The shortcomings I mention below may put some people off, depending on how they may expect to use the camera. https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0611&L=imagej&H=1&O=A&P=18622 https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0611&L=imagej&H=1&O=A&P=19147 I, particularly, would like to 1) control the image snapshot function from a plugin or a macro, and also 2) be able to grab averaged frames from within IJ. QImaging are aware of this wishlist and I offered to test it if required, but I am not sure how keen are they are to implement these. In fairness, they resolved one problem I found (it rescaled automatically the contrast range, making impossible to do ratio image background correction), so there is always hope that they will come up with those improvements. Regards, Gabriel |
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