Re: greyscale, iidc camera and micromanager

Posted by Nico Stuurman-4 on Apr 18, 2008; 8:04pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/greyscale-iidc-camera-and-micromanager-tp3696514p3696516.html

Hi Joe,

> I just tried MicroManager with an inexpensive iidc firewire camera  
> (Fire-i by Unibrain).  Unibrain
> claims it is iidc compliant and a link that I followed from the  
> micro manager site suggested
> compatibility.
>
> My own experience was that the program did recognize the camera, but  
> the image size was 160 by
> 120 instead of 640 by 480.  I verified that no binning was selected.
>
> Has anyone had specific  success with micro manager and a Unibrain  
> camera?
>
> Success with other iidc camera with micro manager?

You have a higher chance for response by posting MicroManager  
questions to the MicroManager mailing list (https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/micro-manager-general 
).

It sounds like you need to adjust the property "Video Modes".  You can  
find this property in the Property Browser (under the Tools menu).  
There are likely a few modes listed (this depends on your camera).  
Select the one you like best.  You can bring this property to the  
MicroManager front panel by making a configuration group (press the  
'+' button in the middle of the screen).  You can also make another  
configuration group called 'System', with a preset called 'Startup'  
with the appropriate video mode selected to have the desired video  
mode set on startup.

Best,

Nico