Which camera?

[Gabriel Landini]

Hi,
I would like any opinions about these 2 cameras for bright field microscopy:

Q-Imaging Micropublisher 2.2
DeltaPix Infinity X

Which one is more desirable?
Q-Imaging Micropublisher 2.2 has an IJ plugin (although Windows only) and it
is Firewire.
The Infinity X is USB2, has a high resolution mode by means of some "pixel
shifting", but I am still wondering if this is likely to break easily or go
out of alignment and what is in reality the resolution achieved.

I would appreciate any comments to help us make up our minds.
Regards,

Gabriel

[Michael Herron]

I am not familiar with the Infinity but we have a NIKON pixel shifting
camera on one of our scopes and it seems a rather useless feature (to
me).  Plus, unless the scope is quite stable any vibration causes
strange artifacts in the images.

On Apr 6, 2006, at 5:50 AM, Gabriel Landini wrote:

> Hi,
> I would like any opinions about these 2 cameras for bright field
> microscopy:
>
> Q-Imaging Micropublisher 2.2
> DeltaPix Infinity X
>
> Which one is more desirable?
> Q-Imaging Micropublisher 2.2 has an IJ plugin (although Windows only)
> and it
> is Firewire.
> The Infinity X is USB2, has a high resolution mode by means of some
> "pixel
> shifting", but I am still wondering if this is likely to break easily
> or go
> out of alignment and what is in reality the resolution achieved.
>
> I would appreciate any comments to help us make up our minds.
> Regards,
>
> Gabriel
>
>

Michael J. Herron,  U of MN, Dept. of Entomology
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