Video SystemsVideo Systems
One video system in use in our lab is a Dage DC-330 1/3" RGB color camera with a 0.31x reduction lens to obtain a larger field of view. This is mounted on an Olympus BH-2 compound microscope, equipped with bright-field and differential interference contrast optics. The camera has an adaptor to mount onto a Wild M5A stereo microscope. The video system sends the images directly to a Macintosh computer, a Power Computing PowerTower Pro 225 Mac/OS system outfitted with a Scion LG-3 Framegrabber to capture the images. The computer has 32 MB RAM and a 1 GB hard drive.
The second video camera we have is a Sony DXC-970 1/2" RGB color system with a 0.45x reduction lens to obtain a larger field of view. This is mounted on a Zeiss Axioskop equipped with bright-field, phase contrast, fluorescence and differential interference contrast optics. This video system sends images to a PowerMac 7500 outfitted with a Scion AG-7 framegrabber. This computer has 32 MB RAM and a 3 GB hard drive.