Re: Exporting single images from camera to ImageJ
Posted by Gabriel Landini on Aug 24, 2007; 11:05am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Exporting-single-images-from-camera-to-ImageJ-tp3698525p3698529.html
On Friday 24 August 2007 06:52:12 Duleep Samuel wrote:
> Dear all, Can one trigger image acquisition from an ImageJ macro or plugin?
> using a consumer USB 2 /1.1 camera like Canon, Olympus or Kodak, with 4-7
> MB pixels It will be nice, thanks Samuel
If the camera comes with a program that allows you to grab a shot and send it
to IJ, you can use the IJ_Robot plugin to click on the application panel from
an IJ macro. It is not very elegant (for example, you cannot mover the mouse
when the capture is ongoing) but works.
Plugins where one needs to physically click to send the image to IJ (like the
QImaging plugin and many others) are not particularly suitable to do
automated work: lapse shots, average shots, autofocusing (when connecting to
a microscope stage), mosaic capture, etc.
Instead the capture plugins should be callable from a macro or plugin (i.e.
call the program/driver so it sends the image to IJ).
This should not bee too difficult to program and the advantages of being able
to automate image capture with IJ would be enormous for the user (more
power) and for the manufacturer (more camera sales).
Cheers,
G.