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On Friday 20 June 2008 11:02:28 James wrote: |
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> Matthew R. Lee <gentoo <at> matthewlee.org> writes: |
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> > Dear All, |
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> > I've just taken delivery of a shiny new microscope with a digital imaging |
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> > system. Essentially a fancy usb webcam. As usual out of the box there is |
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> > no Linux support. The model is a Q Imaging Go-3. Their website doesn't |
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> > mention linux support except in the context of the firewire models. |
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> http://www.qimaging.com/products/cameras/documentation/ |
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> Says: |
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> "The Go Series use superior CMOS sensors which take advantage of USB 2.0 |
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> plug-n-play interfaces under Windows supported operating systems. The |
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> MicroPublisher cameras use CCD technology combined with the sustained data |
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> performance of FireWire to offer superior color imaging and performance for |
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> Windows, Mac and Linux based operating systems. Both the Go and |
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> MicroPublisher series cameras come with QCapture Suite and QCapture Pro |
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> software designed for high speed performance preview and capture functions. |
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> A Software Development Kit is available for easy interfacing with custom |
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> software. QImaging cameras are compatible with a large selection of life |
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> science and industrial software for microscope, machine vision and video |
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> streaming applications. " |
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> Oh by the way, in my previous post I mentioned "classes of usb |
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> drivers". Take a look here: |
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> http://www.usb.org/developers/defined_class |
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> A generic class driver under linux just might work for your device, |
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> since it is bascially a "web cam". Vendors most often try to get |
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> their products to use the generic class drivers, so they work |
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> out of the box with the various operating systems. |
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> Surely there is a way to make one of their microscopes work with linux? |
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> I'd be interested in this, if they do not cost too much..... |
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> James |
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Thanks for the info, I haven't got time to do anything about this until the |
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weekend. Hopefully it will just work. As for the cost, it is excessivly |
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spendy. The cost was around 2.3 million chilean pesos, that's about £2300 or |
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$4600 US. Yeah! seemed exhorbitant to me, but I'm not paying for it. |
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Saludos |
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Matt |
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Dr. Matthew R. Lee |
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Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' |
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Universidad Austral de Chile |
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Campus Isla Teja |
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Valdivia |
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matt@××××××××××.org |
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URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org |
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