SPOT Cameras

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SPOT Idea™ Camera

The SPOT Idea spot digital microscope cameras are the next wave of high performance digital imaging systems for researchers, pathologists, scientists, and engineers. They produce high quality images with low noise for publication and documentation, and come with an attractive price. These easy-to-use color cameras are an excellent choice for pathology, as well as clinical, life and material science, educational and industrial applications.

The SPOT Idea cameras connect easily to any computer with a USB port. They provide a full screen live image window on the monitor to make panning through slides, focusing and setting exposure a snap. Publication-quality images are easily captured with the click of a button. The images are immediately available for printing, emailing, or adspotng annotations, measurements or scale bars within the included SPOT software - no media cards or downloading is required, saving you time and aggravation.

Idea cameras can be attached to any brand microscope, or they can be fitted with a macro lens for imaging on a tripod.

SPOT INSIGHT™ Camera

The SPOT Insight microscopy camera creates impressive images for journal publication and documentation. The Insight cameras interface with your computer to provide a live image window on the monitor for panning through slides, focusing and setting exposure. Publication-quality images are easily captured with the click of a button. The images are immediately available for printing, emailing, or adding annotations, measurements or scale bars.

The SPOT Insight can be adapted to virtually any microscope in your laboratory. The SPOT Insight camera uses Kodak scientific grade CCD sensors and optimized electronic circuitry to provide clean, low noise images, so they can be used for moderately bright fluorescence as well as bright field microscopy applications.

The 4.0 megapixel SPOT Insight camera provides an incredibly large field of view that matches your microscope. The 2.0 megapixel SPOT Insight camera provides a fast frame rate for time lapse imaging at an excellent price.

SPOT FLEX™ Camera

Flex cameras combine acquisition flexibility with category leading specifications to set the new benchmark for high resolution microscopy applications. With Flex shifting sensor technology, you can select the resolution depending on your needs: single-shot 4.0 megapixel capture for moving specimens, 4-shot 4.0 megapixel full color sampling for high magnification fixed specimens, 16-shot 16 megapixel for low magnification fixed specimens or a 64 megapixel color image for large posters. This amazing resolution adds impressive detail to images.

The Flex camera uses a Kodak scientific grade CCD sensor which captures images with a very wide field of view, matching the microscope.

The high resolution and cooling of the Flex camera makes it ideal for a wide range of brightfield and fluorescence microscopy applications in life science, clinical and materials research laboratories.

SPOT RT™ Camera

The SPOT RT3 microscope camera is the laboratory workhorse, easy to use and excellent for both brightfield and fluorescence imaging. The SPOT RT3 is the latest version from the popular SPOT RT camera line, combining improved performance with FireWire connectivity.

SPOT PURSUIT™ Camera

The SPOT Pursuit USB microscope camera is optimized for fluorescence imaging applications. It is an incredible combination of benchmark performance specifications, cost-effectiveness and reliability. Its compact design, software-controlled fan, and advanced triggering enable direct control of shutters and filter wheels, and, when coupled with imaging software, the Pursuit USB can be part of a completely automated 6-D acquisition experiment.

Its Sony ICX 285 CCD sensor provides high sensitivity and fast frame rates to capture low light dynamic events easily. Its Enhanced IR mode boosts the Pursuit's near-IR sensitivity by 200%-400%, which shortens exposure times by >50-75%. Rounding out the Pursuit’s features is its reliable, carefree Peltier cooling which ensures clean, dark backgrounds in fluorescence images.

The Pursuit camera is ideal for live cell GFP imaging, ion ratio experiments, particle tracking, high content screening, immunofluorescence, and many other fluorescence imaging applications.

SPOT XPLORER™ Camera

The SPOT Xplorer Peltier-cooled CCD camera offers the highest level of regulated cooling in its class with extremely low dark current, providing tremendous performance for extremely long exposures.

The Xplorer uses a Kodak 4020 CCD sensor that provides an increspotbly wide field of view that matches the microscope. The CCD sensor has deep pixel wells with high dynamic range to maximize your signal.