ProgRes® Digital Microscope Camera

Microscope with a ProgRes® camera

A digital microscope camera of the ProgRes®-family is based on decades of experience in development and production of high-end solutions for digital imaging.
The integration of a ProgRes® microscope camera into the laboratory is easy. The ProgRes® microscope camera connects via C-mount to the microscope. The connection to the computer is done via Firewire.
For all contrast methods in light microscopy you find a suitable model out of the ProgRes® microscope camera family at best price-performance-ratio.

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Essential:

Life Science

Reproducibility and sensitivity are the important requirements to a digital Microscope camera in life science applications. For fluorescence imaging we offer three monochrome microscope camera models:
ProgRes® MF
ProgRes® MFcool
ProgRes® MFscan
If you look for a sensitive color microscope camera, you will find a wide range of cameras at the ProgRes® microscope camera family. ProgRes® CF,
ProgRes® CFcool,
ProgRes® CFscan
ProgRes® C14plus.

Relevant:

Material Science

A microscope with a ProgRes® microscope camera is an absolutely reliable and productive working place, easy to use, and delivering images with very high quality. To capture color images in excellent quality using a microscope in Material science we recommend a camera out of the following list:
ProgRes® CT3
ProgRes® C3
ProgRes® C5
ProgRes® CF
ProgRes® CFcool
ProgRes® CFscan
ProgRes® C14plus

Flexible:

Macroscopy

Very high resolution and flexibility are required from a digital camera used in stereo microscopy and macroscopy. With the Macro-Photography workstation, consisting of a copystand, a macro zoom lens, a foot switch, and a ProgRes® microscope camera, you document your objects fast, precise and reliable. The Macro-Photography workstation can be equipped with any ProgRes® microscope camera. Please look up your best-suited model out of the ProgRes® microscope camera family.

The ProgRes® microscope camera family offers the right camera for all contrast methods in light microscopy or macro-photography.

In applications, where exact reproduction of colors is the first priority, ProgRes® offers camera models with finest details, because every color channel is digitized in 14 Bits.

With the help of the patented "color-co-site-sampling" used in ProgRes® C14plus a real color image is generated without any interpolation and moire effect.

Experience for years in using color sensors and the exact adjustment of the ProgRes® camera to the microscope guarantee that your ProgRes® camera delivers images with absolutely natural colors.

Qualitative and quantitative analysis of images only make sense, if microscope and camera provide absolutely reproducible and high-quality images. And exactly this distinguishes a microscope with ProgRes® camera.

High-grade electronics of a ProgRes® microscope camera and analog gain guarantee digital images at a very low noise level, even at low light conditions and with long exposure times.

Depending on your requirements you choose a ProgRes® microscope camera with monochrome sensor or with color sensor.

Especially when long exposure times are needed, we recommend a cooled microscope camera. Cooling in the CF- and MF-series uses a Peltier element and a heat sink. The sensor is integrated into a capsule which is hermetically sealed and nitrogen flushed.

An important prerequisite for productive work with a digital microscope camera is a fast live image. A microscope with a ProgRes® camera can be set up fast and precisely thanks to the fast live image. In addition ProgRes® CapturePro software supports your setup of microscope and camera in many cases e.g. with a focus tool, by selecting the correct exposure time automatically, or with calibration data for your microscope.

All parameters for taking an image are stored, hence you can capture your images with exactly the same parameters again and again. This makes your reports, generated with a ProgRes® microscope camera, absolutely comparable.

The high resolution of a ProgRes® camera in combination with the very good lense of the Macro-workstation, delivers digital images at the level of stereo-microscope.
The image capture software ProgRes® CapturePro supports you again with lots of features like rotated live image, a continuously adjusted exposure time, or with displaying a scale bar and measurement values.
The capture is done easily by pressing the foot switch. This keeps your head and hands free and let you fully concentrate on your macro-photographic task.

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LEICA M8 and M8.2

The LEICA M8 doesn't only look like an M - it utilises all the benefits of the analog Leica M system for sophisticated and creative digital photography. It is the only digital camera for enthusiasts and professionals alike to incorporate the rangefinder system with its advantages of discreet and quiet operation, speed and precision. Full compatibility with nearly all M lenses means that their unique imaging performance is available for digital photography, too. The CCD image sensor has been specifically matched to the compact lens design to guarantee superlative photographic quality. The controls and functions of the digital M still concentrate on the essentials.

Exceptional performance in every detail

For Leica, image quality is not only a byword, but a value attained by optimising all the links in the performance chain: Leica's high performance M lenses, now performing even better in the digital system with the 6-bit coding. The low-noise CCD sensor with a resolution of 10.3 megapixels, which is specifically matched to the extreme requirements of the high-resolution M lenses. The future-guaranteed raw data format (DNG) and the new raw data converter Capture One4, acknowledged as the best. It is this combination of these high-quality individual components that ensures the best image quality.

Concentration on the exposure. Not on the controls.

By concentrating on the essentials, the camera's operation is simple and intuitive. The LEICA M8 deliberately dispenses with multifunction keys and nested menus. All the main settings are in clearly structured menus on the bright 2.5" display. For detailed quality control whilst "on location", RGB histogram and clipping warning can be used on even the finest details of the subject.

LEICA M8.2 - The Evolution of the Digital Rangefinder Camera

The new LEICA M8.2 is a significant development of the digital rangefinder camera for professionals, M8. Where important attributes of LEICA M8 such as discretion, intuitive work and robustness have been further improved.

Even more intuitive operation

The new snapshot mode "S" can be particularly useful in tight reportage conditions. It will also appeal to all those who want good results right away without knowing a lot about photography. If the shutter speed dial is turned to the new "S" setting, the camera controls all the key features automatically, such as automatic exposure (aperture priority), automatic ISO speed setting and automatic white balance. Another new feature is a quick override setting. For more precise framing at long distances, the bright-line frames in the viewfinder have been designed to handle larger framing areas.

Robustness & discretion

The new LEICA M8.2 is the very first professional digital camera to use an ultra scratch-resistant sapphire crystal as coverglass for the camera monitor. It is so hard that it can only be worked with special diamond tools. The camera also sports a new easy-grip and specially robust "vulcanite" finish.

Thanks to numerous detailed modifications, the noise and vibration of the shutter action have been audibly and noticeably reduced even further. The fastest shutter speed of the metal blade focal-plane shutter is 1/4000 s, and the flash sync speed is 1/180 s. To make the camera even more discreet in critical situations, the photographer may personally determine the suitable moment when the shutter is cocked.

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Compact and quick - New charger unit

The new compact charger unit is designed to take up a minimum of space in the photograper's bag and has a quick-charge function when charging the battery. The LED flashes yellow after about two hours when 80 percent of the charging capacity has been reached. This is already sufficient for about 400 exposures.

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Samsung has confirmed that the company is currently working on a new digital SLR. Speaking exclusively to WDC Editor Nigel Atherton at the company's worldwide headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Mr Young-Bae Kim, Samsung's Director of DSLR business, revealed that the new DSLR, the company's third, would be quite different to its previous models.

"The GX-20 was not very different in appearance to the GX10," he admitted, "but from the GX-20 to the next model will be a much bigger change."
He would not reveal any specific features, specifications or even the name of the new camera except that it would be smaller in size than its predecessors, and would be launched in the second half of 2009. Asked whether it would follow the new trend of incorporating HD Video capture, Mr Kim said:

“It is certainly something we will think about, but there is lots of homework to be done to overcome some of the limitations of the feature in existing models.” Samsung already incorporates HD video into many of its compact cameras.

Like its previous two DSLR models, the new DSLR will be a joint development with Pentax and Mr Kim reiterated the company's commitment to this partnership for the foreseeable future saying that, if anything, this relationship would 'expand'.

He did, however play down rumours that Samsung is developing a full-frame (35mm sized) sensor.
“I think we will be staying with the APS-C sensor for now, and developing it further. We believe that there is still much potential to improve the image quality from DSLRs using the existing APS-C sensor and it is very important to Samsung that we continue to do so.”

He admitted that there is still 'pixel competition' in the DSLR sector, with manufacturers striving to produce not only larger, full-frame sensors but higher pixel counts on smaller sensors, but he would not speculate on what he thought the maximum practicable pixel count might be for an APS-C sensor, or give any indication as to how many megapixels the new DSLR would have.

News of a forthcoming DSLR comes in the wake of the announcement that Samsung is working on a new 'Hybrid' camera system to rival Micro Four-Thirds, which will feature interchangeable lenses and an APS-C sensor, but an Electronic Viewfinder instead of a reflex mirror and prism (thus enabling a much smaller body). Mr Kim was not able to reveal any more details of this system, or whether its first Hybrid camera would look more like the DSLR-style Panasonic Lumix G1 or the rangefinder style Olympus prototype shown at Photokina. He said they would observe consumers' response to these two products with interest.

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