Omax Amscope Touview Cameras
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2020 5:29 pm
There are these c-mount microscope cameras available that ship with toupview. The standard camera apps on Windows can not see them, so you have to use the toupview that comes with it. And the toupview's can not see other toupview cameras. So you can't just run the latest software and see the older amscope/omax whatever camera that worked fine with its version of toupview. Maybe some dll's can be copied around, but that seems like a really simple ting on their side to fix.
Skipping the software issues, I think I'm wasting a lot of time using these cameras to test and try to get even an ok looking image. There are always issues. The 2MB ones have the Fuji camera sensor issue with purple in the middle of the image if too much light shoots up into the sensor -- which is basically a microscope image. The USB3 one picture here has been used on multiple different set-ups from Nikon, Leica, and Olympus -- and the best images are just well it's an image I guess. There is purple at times, so the lamp has to be dimmed a bit. Camera stand work with a 55mm has been the best results and still Fuji sensor issues seem to be present but less noticeable than the 2mb.
So I got some DLSR camera mounts and I'm going to try a Cannon DLSR that is supposed to also have software support with the open camera projects out there. I'd like to be able to write code to capture when I want, motor something, and capture again.
Does anyone have success with these toupview cameras? They are forsale on Amazon and everywhere else like they're something worth having. And I think that's why I'm really starting to have a negative bias against them. The ToupView package looks like a full featured set-up, so people use it and a better package is really needed. The image stitching never worked. It gives images with diagonal slashes in it for a simple refocus transition video. For reflectance images, forget it it's just junk. And then it hangs at times. So stitching is a no. Even the image capture is annoying. You have to remember to switch back to the live. You can't snap an image and snap again. The UI is in a dead tab now -- at times a person might be refocusing and wonder why it's not changing -- oh, the tab thing again. Who wrote this? They seem to be holding a spot and no else wants to bother to write a better set-up.
What camera mount would be good for this Leica DM IL? I have Olympus setups that I'll try.
Skipping the software issues, I think I'm wasting a lot of time using these cameras to test and try to get even an ok looking image. There are always issues. The 2MB ones have the Fuji camera sensor issue with purple in the middle of the image if too much light shoots up into the sensor -- which is basically a microscope image. The USB3 one picture here has been used on multiple different set-ups from Nikon, Leica, and Olympus -- and the best images are just well it's an image I guess. There is purple at times, so the lamp has to be dimmed a bit. Camera stand work with a 55mm has been the best results and still Fuji sensor issues seem to be present but less noticeable than the 2mb.
So I got some DLSR camera mounts and I'm going to try a Cannon DLSR that is supposed to also have software support with the open camera projects out there. I'd like to be able to write code to capture when I want, motor something, and capture again.
Does anyone have success with these toupview cameras? They are forsale on Amazon and everywhere else like they're something worth having. And I think that's why I'm really starting to have a negative bias against them. The ToupView package looks like a full featured set-up, so people use it and a better package is really needed. The image stitching never worked. It gives images with diagonal slashes in it for a simple refocus transition video. For reflectance images, forget it it's just junk. And then it hangs at times. So stitching is a no. Even the image capture is annoying. You have to remember to switch back to the live. You can't snap an image and snap again. The UI is in a dead tab now -- at times a person might be refocusing and wonder why it's not changing -- oh, the tab thing again. Who wrote this? They seem to be holding a spot and no else wants to bother to write a better set-up.
What camera mount would be good for this Leica DM IL? I have Olympus setups that I'll try.