Posted by
Heeschen, Bill (WA) on
Nov 28, 2006; 2:57pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/plugIn-for-FireWire-Camera-tp3700940p3700941.html
Greetings, all.
I must chime in with a second to Gabriel's eloquent requests for QImaging (and other vendors') support of macro-controlled image capture. I have separately made these identical requests to QImaging - although not as well-stated! (Thanks, Gabriel) I know this topic has been on the list before, but it is still not resolved, so worth continuing the thread...
Related note to all camera suppliers - it seems that if we had a FULL implementation of the TWAIN protocol for your cameras - like we do for many scanners - it should serve much of the same purpose regarding the ability to run the camera from a macro/plugin without user intervention or the IJ_Robot. This would include adjustment of exposure, resolution, etc. as well as capture-on-demand image collection. We could then use one of the Java/TWAIN packages to finish off the task. (JTWAIN:
http://asprise.com/product/jtwain/, Morena:
http://www.gnome.sk/ )
(My experience is with QImaging and Leica TWAIN interfaces - both work well interactively, but neither allow full automated control in the versions I used. I've not tried other cameras with TWAIN, so have no comment beyond these two.)
Best Regards,
Bill
William A. Heeschen, Ph.D.
Microscopy, Digital Imaging
The Dow Chemical Company
Midland, MI 48674
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Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 08:51:52 +0000
From: Gabriel Landini <
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Subject: Re: plugIn for FireWire Camera
Hi David,
Thanks for your comments.
On Friday 24 November 2006 03:01, David Hitrys wrote:
> 1. Being able to control the camera from ImageJ would, indeed, be
> useful. However, due to the nature of the existing plug-in, this is
> currently not possible. We will look into other avenues of supporting
> scripting in ImageJ, though we currently do not have concrete plans at
> this point.
> 2. The Snap button is currently the only mapped function to ImageJ.
That is right, it would be ideal to have another similar plugin that does only
this:
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