Posted by
Nico Stuurman-4 on
Feb 08, 2008; 6:00am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Hamamatsu-and-Micro-Manager-tp3697264p3697265.html
Hi Bob,
> Just purchased a new Hamamatsu Orca 285G firewire camera, was
> hoping to
> go down the route of making it work with micro-manager plug-in for
> ImageJ. Micro-manager (v1.1.46 for Windows XP) installed on 3Ghz Intel
> PC - Have downloaded DCAM-API.dll from Hamamatsu, placed in
> Micro-manager folder, but still when I try to configure the camera as
> new hardware I only get as far as "Error 22: Dcam : native module not
> found"
Did you install the DCAM API as well as the Hamamatsu driver for the
camera? It is a while ago I did this on Windows, but I remember that
there was a straight-forward installer for the DCAM-API. Installing
the driver was a bit less straight forward, since Windows seems to
think that its own driver is more appropriate than the Hamamatsu one,
and it was needed to specifically point to the Hamamatsu driver
during driver installation. Please make sure that the Hamamatsu
driver (and not the Microsoft one) is used for the camera. It is not
needed to copy the file DCMA-API.dll to the Micro-Manager directory.
In any case, please make sure that the DCAM API is installed
correctly and working with the camera. If it isn't, there is no way
that Micro-Manager can operate the camera. If it is, your camera is
very likely to work with Micro-Manager.
It is probably best to continue this thread on the Micro-Manager
mailing list (
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/micro-
manager-general) to which I cross-posted. There is also a bit more
information on the Micro-Manager wiki (
http://valelab.ucsf.edu/~nico/
MMwiki/index.php/Hamamatsu).
Best,
Nico
> Any ideas to get past this stage? Is there an additional adaptor
> needed?
> Looks like a good program for our purposes and we are keen to make use
> of it.
>
> Suggestions gratefully received,
>
> Bob
>
> Bob Fleming
> Bio-Imaging
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