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Color infidelity: Why choosing the correct camera is being faithful to your data Many microscope users dismiss the color microscope camera as mundane and do not consider the technology with as much thought as a low light monochrome camera for fluorescence. Although...

You’re not fully clean until you’re ISO 16232 – fully clean! Manufacturing is just catching on to what bath soap companies have known for years – cleanliness sells product! In a never-ending quest for superior product and reliability, manufacturers, particularly in...

All the King’s horses and all the King’s men lacked 3D reconstruction to put Humpty back together again The original Mother Goose nursery rhyme pretty much described the difficulty in reassembling a delicate and complicated 3D structure: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,...

Microscope Marco Polo: Why the 0.7X lens on your DMi8 C helps you find what you are looking for For years metallurgists have preferred inverted microscopes for sample leveling simplicity and the ability to accommodate large materials. However, one of the major sources...

The Microscope Objective Lens is a Critical Decision When choosing a microscope and the associated lenses, many microscope users understand that the objective lens is a critical component to producing an excellent image. However, many people, when faced with the...

sCMOS scores a touchdown, spikes the ball, and receives a penalty for excessive celebration The technology in complementary metal-oxide semiconductors (CMOS) sensors has been around for a long time. These sensors are inexpensive to manufacture and have made their way...

Knowledge is power when minimizing error in imaging Maybe you are one of the people who engaged in arguments about whether the dress is white and gold or blue and black. Or maybe you are just a regular person trying to take a picture of a dress to share it with your...

Long hours under the microscope are no joking matter! The thought of a Drosophila headed to the local bar for a drink creates a funny joke, but after long hours of sorting flies under a microscope that causes eyestrain or neck pain, you may be the one that wants to...

Megapixel Meltdown: Cannon announces the release of a 250 megapixel sensor With the recent release of a 250 megapixel sensor, the world of microscopy will never be the same. Or will it? Although microscope users will continue to demand higher resolution cameras it is...