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  • Maximum possible image size of color 5.0MP Grasshopper varies with pixel format.

    This article describes why, in some cases, it is not possible to access the maximum reported image size on a color 5MP Grasshopper GRAS-50S5C.

  • FlyCapture SDK Download

    The FlyCapture® Software Development Kit (SDK) provides a common software interface to control and acquire images for FLIR area scan USB 3.1, GigE, FireWire, and USB 2.0 cameras using the same API under 32- or 64-bit Windows or Linux. Note: Blackfly S cameras use our latest SDK: Spinnaker. Spinnaker also supports all USB 3.1 and GigE area scan cameras.

  • Stereo Accuracy and Error Modeling

    The objective of this document is to give a reasonable approximation of stereo errors in 3D and to outline the methods customers can use to determine the tolerances themselves.

  • Troubleshooting Neural Network Conversion Errors

    This application note describes some common errors that can occur when converting neural network graph files, compares performance before and after conversion, and provides a list of supported layers.

  • Camera Test Protocol

    The detector is one of the most important components of any microscope system. Accurate detector readings are vital for collecting reliable biological data to process for publication.To ensure your camera is performing as well as it should be, Photometrics designed a range of tests that can be performed on any microscope.

  • Introduction To Light Sheet Microscopy

    During the last two decades, microscopy has been constantly trying to exploit new boundaries. By aiming for smaller details, cameras and other detectors needed to become more sensitive and less noisy due to less available photons per resolvable detail

  • iSPIM and diSPIM

    Light sheet microscopy overcomes the challenges of imaging physiological processes. Light exposure can result in phototoxic effects and photodamage on biological samples, which can disrupt cellular functions.

  • Imaging In Color

    Life is full of color, and capturing an image that replicates human perception of color is an important, and sometimes challenging, aspect of both everyday life and scientific research. Although many cameras, such as phone cameras, video cameras, and commercial digital cameras, produce color images, a large portion of scientific research is carried out using monochrome cameras.

  • Lattice Light Sheet

    Light sheet is one of the fastest growing fields in microscopy due to the low cost, flexibility and fast 3D imaging of large samples. In other microscopy techniques, the illumination and imaging systems use the same light path and on the same axis.

  • Köhler Illumination

    In microscopy, we aim to produce a sharply-defined, magnified image of our sample in our detector or our eyes. The sample requires illumination for us to see it – but how do we avoid simply seeing a sharply-defined, magnified image of the LED, bulb filament or arc lamp of our light source? Instead, we require even, uniform illumination of our sample, free from structures and patterns, no matter what light source we use.

  • Programmable Scan Mode

    Applications such as light-sheet microscopy and spinning disk confocal microscopy often utilize rolling shutter readout of CMOS sensors to enhance image quality. Programmable Scan Mode (PSM) allows additional control over the rolling shutter and readout, such as adding delays to groups of rows and changing the readout direction. PSM can be found on our Prime and Kinetix families of CMOS cameras.

  • Mesolens

    Since the invention of the microscope, optics have been optimized to match the performance of the human eye. The relationship between field of view (FOV), magnification and numerical aperture (NA) has changed little in the past decades, with magnification typically being given by 30-60x the numerical aperture.