AxioCam Digital Cameras from Carl Zeiss Provide High-quality Micrographs at a Low Price
GÖTTINGEN/Germany, January 2007.
Carl Zeiss is adding with two new models to its line of entry-level digital cameras for photomicrography: the 1.4 megapixel AxioCam ICc1 and the 3.3 megapixel AxioCam ICc3.
These cameras offer an excellent price/performance ratio and have been developed for users who work with laboratory and routine microscopes and simple stereomicroscopes.
The AxioCam ICc cameras with C-mount adapter are ideal for general micrographs of color objects when sufficient light is available, e.g. for all brightfield micrographs in materials microscopy.
Due to their performance, these cameras provide an economical solution for routine industrial applications or simple documentation tasks in laboratories. They are directly integrated into the AxioVision software and permit fast, high-resolution live images (17 images per second with AxioCam ICc1 and 6 to 39 images per second with AxioCam ICc3) and fast FireWire data transfer of the images.
The addition of these budget-priced entry-level instruments to the AxioCam line makes system solutions from ZEISS available to even more users.
These new cameras have made it possible to replace video cameras with framegrabber interface technology that have often been used until now for cost reasons, and have led to a marked improvement in image quality.
Therefore, the complex installation of framegrabber cards is a thing of the past, and the resolution (from 1392 x 1040 pixels with the AxioCam ICc1 to 2028 x 1540 pixels with the AxioCam ICc3) of the digital cameras is no longer restricted to the video standard.
The AxioCam ICc cameras permit selection of a wide range of exposure times and any required parts of the sensor area. Recording automation ranges from the automatic allocation of image scaling to the automatic recording of Z-stacks for topographic displays or the capture of large image areas using motorized stages.
Some special evaluation programs for tasks in materials research, e.g. the analysis of grain sizes, are ideally supplemented with these cameras. Both the reproducibility of measuring results and the operating convenience of these cameras are considerably higher than with inexpensive and therefore frequently used digital compact cameras with an integrated zoom lens.
With an edge length of approx. 4 cm, the cube-shaped cameras are extremely compact. They require neither an adapter nor an external power unit as power is supplied via the FireWire data cable.
Convenient system solutions are now available to the users with the ZEISS Primo Star and Axiostar microscopes, and the Stemi 2000C and SteREO Discovery stereomicroscopes.
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AxioCam ICc digital entry-level microscope cameras from Carl Zeiss.
