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Hi Folks
I did get a sneak peak of the new Nikon A1 confocal at the cell biology meeting.  It does look very interesting, and has loads of forward looking components... The best thing for all of us is that Nikon have re-entered the market at the top end with a device that looks at first blush that it can provide real competition for oly/leica/zeiss.  The things I remember were that it was FAST (in the hundreds of frames/second scale)..and had a hybdrid scanner so you could collect and photoactivate at the same time, another factoid I recall was the ability to collect 32 channels of spectral information at about 16 frames/second... The guys who were showing it stated that there was a big increase in efficiency (I think the number stated was about 30% but I cant be sure).  Generally I was very impressed.  I know that what I was allowed to see what not the finished product, but these are thing I do remember about the scope.
I am sure one of the Nikon marketing folks will tell us the real high points as a response to the original question from Heiko... and of course correct anything I got wrong!

We do live in an interesting time with two major new confocals coming out at pretty much the same time!  Now who has info on the new zeiss system?
S.

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Do you mean Canon A1 or Nikon F3?  I have three A1 bodies.

At 08:13 AM 02/01/08, you wrote:
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>Hi colleagues
>Did anybodyy have hands on the nikon A1?
>regards
>Heiko
>
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