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  • Starlyte Nebula Now Supports Opto Gmbh Microsocpes

    Thomas Spieker from Opto Gmbh was kind enough to send us a demo assembly of several microscopes made by his company. Opto manufactures a series of highly integrated microscope modules, all provided in a small, integrated form factor.

    I was able to work with two different variations. One is a complete transmitted illumination setup with camera and objective at 20x. The second is a reflected light device with integrated LED illuminators.

    It’s neat to see such a compact setup on the desk. Using the 20x with a typical gut section stained sample was a piece of cake. Field uniformity on the illuminator was great, and color balance was as expected.

    The reflected design unit has both a coaxial and ring-style illuminator position – both are provided in Nebula as control LED options.

    Use of the camera was straightforward. It supports 8 and 12 bit readout on a color sensor. I can definitely imagine hooking this up to a small XYZ gantry or even a 3d printer for inspection use. Thanks to Opto for the demo unit!

    Here is a video review and live demo of hte unit while running on Starlyte Nebula.

  • Touptek Cameras Supported in Nebula

    Recently, I had two different requests to support the cameras manufactured by Touptek. Ash from Scientific Imaging was kind enough to let me borrow one for in-house integration and testing.

    These cameras support Sony IMX-174 sensors, use a USB 3.1 (locking!) cable, and are straightforward to hook up and use. A GPIO connection is provided for I/O, and some models also have opto-isolated IO as well.

    Binning, ROI and bit depth readout modes are also supported.

    The camera I had hands on had a color version of the sensor, and while today has been a lot of rain, I was able to get a gloomy scene outside for my demo video below.

    For questions on running this camera in Nebula, please contact us at www.starlyteimaging.com

    If you are interested in these cameras, please contact Scientific Imaging.

    Here is a brief video demo of the camera in Starlyte Nebula!

  • Allied Vision Cameras Now Supported in Nebula

    Starlyte Imaging has completed support for Allied Vision array scan cameras. The driver suite fully supports:

    • Gain modes
    • Color & Bit Depth selection
    • Mono / Color Debayering

    This addition enables users with existing cameras to easily integrate Nebula on machines used for inspection, materials processing, and other industrial applications.

    -Austin

  • Starlyte Nebula Adds Drag+Drop Merge Captures

    Tool simplifies manual capture

    We had a recent customer asking to solve a rather standard but annoying problem. If I have a manual filter turret, and still want to overlay images, how easy is it to do?

    To solve this, we added the ability to drag+drop any image from our capture sidebar into our main view. By adding a demo filter turret to the system config, we captured the real ex, di and em filter settings from the image, insuring metadata is transferred with the images collected. The resulting view is a true multi-dim architecture, saved as an OME set or RGB combined view. Our team made the addition, ran bug testing and edge case validation, pushed the changes and compiled the application in 1 business day.

    Being able to react to our customers’ needs in a short timeframe is one of the best parts of working with my team. Nice work!

    -Austin

  • Tucsen High QE Libra CMOS Announced

    High QE, small pixel size

    Libra CMOS

    Recently Tucsen had a presentation on their new Libra CMOS cameras which includes some nice improvements in sensor performance.

    Key highlights were:

    • Improved QE at 92%
    • Large Full Well Capacity (48,000 e)
    • Native binning / debin system

    In a recent presentation here a series of improvements were listed, among them a smaller pixel size selection option which supports a drop in pixel size to ~ 3.27um. From the explanation I assume the camera runs natively in a binned mode to produce 7.x um pixels, but can be optionally de-binned.

    Each of the cameras (3 models announced) appear to have this feature, as shown below.

    I’m more interested in the full well, as having a ~50k e full well seems a nice improvement in dynamic range over current options. Once item that was very interesting to me is that the full well capacity does NOT reduce when enabling the higher resolution mode. If this is correct, a 3.x um pixel with a 48ke full well would still be quite a nice bump in range and quite a feat!

    For pricing, the presentation noted 0.4x the cost of a “classic CMOS”. I’m curious what that means in an actual dollar amount.

    -Austin

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