> There was a recent thread on video gel imagers....
I also read, and was educated by - then UV Preoducts came and did a
demo here, of their integration / save picture setup: this is a CCD
camera with a "black box" with 1.4Mb stiffy drive (PC
compatible)which allows integration of pictures with exposure times
of 0.1 - 4.0 sec, and saves them to one Mac and two PC formats (TIFF
and PCX). I played with the TIFF files on both a PC and a Mac, and
they were excellent - 8-bit colour, easily reduced in size (of file)
by saving as 256-grey scale thru a PC utility or via NIH Image. The
beauty of the system is that it is CHEAP compared to any other
proprietary setup and it is MODULAR in that you can buy the minimal
hardware (box and camera) - and nothing else, as there is lots of
software out there for playing with images - for about $US 5000
equivalent here, and probably cheaper across ponds and equator.
The software is also modular, and at first sight of demo, looks
pretty good.
UV Products: US tel 800-452-6788, fax 818-285-2940.
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