Brunel Digital Microscopes
Brunel Microscopes Ltd
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High Power Microscopes with built in digital cameras
Some of our more popular compound and stereomicroscopes can be supplied with a digital camera already built into the microscope head. This approach to obtaining good digital images from microscopes have, like many things, both advantages and also some considerations. The models listed below have a full description if you follow the links.
Advantages:
- The microscopes can be used in the normal way (even the monocular instruments) at the same time that images are displayed on laptops or computers
- They are very straight forward to use and include very powerful software that allows still image and video capture, measuring and many other image manipulation options.
- Because the cameras are built in at the point of manufacture they are parfocal with the standard optics. In other words the image down the microscope is in focus at the same time as the image on the computer without the need to change focus.
- Brunel Microscopes provides support for all microscopes that we supply from our qualified IT staff.
- All cables and full instructions are provided
Considerations:
- Most digital microscopes (irrespective of brand) are made for Windows software and will not work with Apple MAC (apart from a few depending on the operating system number)
- The resolution of the cameras will be either 1.3 or 3M. This is because the cameras give a video stream to the computer from which the images are produced by the software and the USB ports (even USB 3.0) cannot cope with the output of a camera much above 3M and will buffer the input so that there is a delay between the microscope control adjustments and the image responding on the computer.
- Should high level resolution be required for -
say - publication perhaps a better solution would be to attach a digital SLR camera to a standard microscope with one of our adapters, and we would be pleased to advise what you will need. - HDMI cameras are now a far better option for attaching to stereomicroscopes if they are to be used for teaching when an immediate response to movement under the microscope can be reflected in a similar immediate move in the image. In other words you obtain a moving image as smooth as that seen on a TV.
- However, Digital SLR’s and HDMI cameras increase costs considerably and if images are not needed at publication standard then our microscopes with inbuilt digital cameras are an excellent choice.
The SP20D has been specifically commissioned by ourselves to combine effective optics with a stable camera CMOS chip and easy to use software that allows full image manipulation and image measurement at an affordable price
The SP27D and the SP28D are available exclusively from Brunel Microscopes. The SP28D is unique in that it has an incident flexible arm light soure which enables the examination of microscope slides and also objects that are not transparent at magnification up yo x200.
More details SP27D More details. SP28D
The SP50D is the digital version of one of our most popular compound microscopes that bridges the gap between serious amateur and professional microscopy. Magnification range x40 to x1000
The SP55D is the digital version of our compound microscope range with the option of a 3M inbuilt digital camera. Magnification range of x40 to x1000.
