Category: Photometrics
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95% QE SCMOS vs. EMCCD
In 2011, I reviewed the Andor Neo, one of the first scmos cameras commercially available. I ended my report with this statement, “…there is much life left in the good old frame transfer sensor…until someone cooks up a back thinned scmos…” Recently, back thinned scmos camera have come to market, and Kurt Thorne at the…
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How to use external triggers on scientific and industrial cameras
Controlling a camera from an external trigger can be very useful. External triggering provides greater timing accuracy, direct control over exposure duration, and remote operation from TTL devices. This is a prime reason I made the Triggerscope controller, so I though it would be useful to explain how this works and what you can do…
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WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND THE UCSF/QB3 Microscopy Course
Over the course of my career, I’ve flown across the US to attend a variety of imaging related instructional courses, all on the eastern seaboard. We are all familiar with the Woods Hole courses, the AQLM course, and so forth. What has boggled my mind is that here I am in the SF Bay area,…
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How to Align a Dualview 2
Walking through the alignment procedure of the DV 2, narrated by Jeff Harris from Photometrics . Great video and great explanation Jeff! For those of you who have a DualView, I’m certain this video will come in handy. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJC5_DdaH80
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Acquisition crashes, and power settings in Win7
Windows 7 has a new power management interface, and the design of modern motherboards, along with win7 Automatic Power Management (APM), can cause some insidious device-based software crashes if power options aren’t set correctly. Here’s how to make sure your system is running in the best mode. Open the Windows Control panel Search for and…
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Photometrics LVDS cards on Win7
I recently slogged through a tough install with a customer (Thanks Sean!!) in an attempt to run an older Photometrics camera using a PCI card in windows 7/xp. What we found was that the latest driver, (as of this post v. 2,7,10) is not working with PVDS cards! The solution for now is to roll…