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Pablo González-Melendi wrote:

> Does anybody have experience on digital cameras for a fluorescence
> microscope? What are the best on the market and which are the main
> specifications to be taken into account before making the decision to
> buy?

It depends upon what you want the camera for and what kind of imaging 
you're doing.  I generally take images of dead, fixed tissue and for 
that I am still using the same dirt-cheap, 8-bit, 640x480-pixel 
monochrome camera that I bought 12 years ago.  However, if you were 
doing live-cell imaging, deconvolution, capturing rapid calcium 
transients, etc., that camera would probably be unsuitable.

So what do you want to use it for?

Martin Wessendorf
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