Here's another method -
http://www.cri-inc.com/Pages/framesets/product_rgb-ms.html
CRI has made this slider assembly which conveniently fits into the optical
path of your microscope.

The nice thing about these filter methods of getting color images is that
you can use any monochrome camera to achieve excellent quality color images.
I've tried plain b/w video cameras as well as scientific grade slow scan CCD
cameras with this technology and have been impressed across the board with
the quality compared with any strictly color camera which uses a color CCD
detector.

The other advantage to this method is that you can adjust the exposure of
each wavelength to achieve maximum dynamic range. I believe Diagnostic
Instruments automatically does this. The result is spectacular color image
quality.

-Ted



-----Original Message-----
From: Confocal Microscopy List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Richard
Hotchkiss
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 1998 1:34 PM
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Subject: Re: color digital camera


We are in the market for a color digital camera for our microscope.
Currently we have a Princeton instruments camera which is a great grey
scale camera but does not do real color. We are interested in getting a
camera which will provide photo quality digital images which will replace
our 35mm camera images ( on Kodak Royal Gold film). We have a lot of
hematoxylin and eosin stained slides which we want to get great true
color images of directly onto our computer.
We tried a camera from "Spot Diagnostics"-I think this is the correct
name. It was really good and we are quite interested in purchasing it.
There was one other camera which another lab bought which was not
acceptable in all cases--I believe the name was Pixera.
Does any one have experience with these instruments or similar ones?
Also, is there something new on the horizon? I heard about a CMOS image
sensor which is about to come out and it has a number of advantages over
existing hardware.
thanks
Richard Hotchkiss
Washington University School of Medicine