Should I get the Zeiss or the Leica to film "Amoeba on a Plane?" Decisions, decisions.
The Leica DFC500 has a 12MP chip w/ 42 bit RGB color and also has color co-site-sampling.
2/3“ 1.4 Mega pixel Progressive Scan CCD Image Sensor
Typ: Sony ICX285AQ
Active Area: 8.8 x 6.6 mm
Programmable Resolution
1360 x 1024 (1shot)
272 x 204 (5x Binning)
1360 x 1024 (4shot)
340 x 256 (HFRM)
2720 x 2048 (16shot)
453 x 340 (3x Binning)
4080 x 3072 (9shot)
680 x 512 (HFRM)
4080 x 3072 (36shot)
On account of the high
precision Microscanning and
Color Co-Site-Sampling the
hermetically sealed and
thermoelectrically cooled
1.4 mega pixel color sensor
generates an image resolution
of up to 12.5 mega pixels in
true colors – without calculated
interpolation.
Zeiss is out of the race for the making of AoaP (Amoeba on a Plane.)
Zeiss only does Windows. JENOPTIK works with Macs.
"New ProgRes® Capture Pro Software for Apple MacintoshTM Computers with PowerPC or Intel Processors.
All types of ProgRes® microscope cameras from JENOPTIK Laser, Optik, Systeme GmbH can be controlled by computers with an Apple MacintoshTM operating system from now on. "
Jena, July 2004
Two happy winners of ProgRes C10plus digital microscope cameras
"Ms. Fortune has made her decision: Annekatrin of JENOPTIK Laser, Optik, Systeme GmbH has drawn the happy winners of new digital microscope cameras, offered as "Giveaway of the Month" in the international "Microscopy & Analysis" magazine. One brand new ProgRes C10plus model goes to Mrs. Yun Nan from People's Republic of China and to Dr. Vladimir Bulka from Czech Republic, respectively.
Congratulations to both of them!"
"The name change is a result of last year’s takeover of Leica’s semiconductor business by Golden Gate Capital, an investment company located in San Francisco (CA), USA."
Cuticular receptors
Autofluorescence, Ex 488, Det 500-600 nm, Color Coded Projection
Dr. Manfred Schmidt
University of Hamburg, Zoological Institute, Neurophysiology, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg