(Olympus America: Center Valley, PA) -- The Olympus DP73 digital microscope camera makes it easy for researchers, pathologists, neuroscientists, and others to achieve exceptional imaging results. The camera delivers 14-bit color depth and 17.28 megapixel resolution for exceptional color reproduction and greater image detail even in very light- or dark-image areas.
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The camera’s 3-CCD mode provides increased resolving power and expanded color space to capture the most subtle colors. The camera’s 3-CCD mode provides a whole new way of performing pixel-shifted imaging with a Bayer mask camera. Like similar cameras, it increases pixel resolution by physically moving the CCD sensor horizontally and vertically within each pixel to capture and overlay subpixel information. However, unlike comparable cameras, the DP73’s 3-CCD mode multiplies the RGB color information within each pixel, dramatically increasing resolution.
Taking advantage of another feature of the DP73, users also avoid the photo-bleaching artifacts that sometimes happen under fluorescence illumination. Without changing brightness levels or losing gray-scale levels, the camera corrects for color bleaching or fading, while eliminating cross-hatching and similar artifacts that occur with other pixel-shifting cameras. Images can be captured across a broad sensitivity range from ISO 100 to ISO 1600, so that even dimly fluorescent illuminated subjects look crisp and clear.
For users whose work involves samples with important detail in the darkest or lightest tonal ranges of color, the DP73 also offers an optional WiDER feature, which provides an extra-wide dynamic range capability so that dark, light, and midtone regions all are imaged crisply without sacrificing detail in other tonal regions. WiDER optimizes the entire image in real time without overexposure or underexposing samples, making it ideal for publishing and working with complex fluorescence applications such as fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) or multiprobe imaging.
Through its support of the Adobe RGB color space, the camera system improves on color reproduction and display performance on RGB devices like computer displays. The DP73 is optimized to work with the Windows 7 64-bit operating system, and provides optional laptop connectivity for maximum flexibility. Users can collect live, compression-free, high-definition images at 15 frames per second.
With Olympus’ cellSens v.1.6 imaging software, it’s easier to display, adjust, capture, analyze, store, and share image data than ever before. The camera software provides functions ranging from image processing and measurement to generating reports, and users can automatically align and stitch overlapping parts of multiple adjacent images with ease. With cellSens Dimension, both monochrome and color images, including images of multistained specimens captured at different wavelengths, are automatically compiled and displayed. Extended focus acquisition allows images to be built from sets of images captured at different focal depths.
The DP73 is designed to provide better low-magnification performance than comparable cameras, thanks to technology adapted from Olympus’ digital single lens reflex (SLR) cameras. These new algorithms and fine-detail processing for enhanced resolution mean that the camera can deliver sharper, clearer images at low magnifications without artifacts or false colors.
For more information on the DP73 microscope camera, e-mail to peter.mabanglo@olympus.com or visit www.olympusamerica.com/DP73.
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