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advanced imaging laboratory

old microscopes
our equipment

microscopes

Compound:
Zeiss Axiovert 100 epi-fluorescence microscope with digital camera
Zeiss Universal epi-fluorescence microscope with digital camera
    with filters for DAPI, FITC & rhodomine
Zeiss Universal microscope with digital camera
Zeiss Ultraphot fluorescence microscope with Nomarski DIC and digital & 4"x5" cameras

Zeiss Ultraphot microscope with Nomarski DIC and digital camera
Reichert Polyvar epi-fluorescence microscope
Leica DMLB2 epi-fluorescence microscope with filters for DAPI, FITC & rhodomine
Olympus/Reichert epi-microscope with video & digital cameras
Wild M40 inverted microscope with video & digital cameras
Wild M20 epi-microscope with video & digital cameras
Zeiss epi-microscope with video & digital cameras

Dissecting & Macro:
Wild M420 macrozoom system with 5.8x to 38x apo objective & digital and HD video cameras
Nikon SM2-2T trinocular dissecting microscope with HD video or digital cameras
Nikon SMZ800 10x - 63x trinocular dissecting microscope with HD video & digital cameras
Zeiss Stemi III dissecting microscope on large boom stand
Zeiss Stemi III dissecting microscope on small stand

cameras

Scientific Digital
Diagnostic Instruments Spot RT KE cooled colour mosaic camera (1600 x 1200 pixels)
Diagnostic Instruments Spot Flex cooled colour mosaic camera (2048 x 2048 pixels)

Professional Digital
Nikon DXM 1200 camera (3,840 x 3,072 pixels)
Nikon D200 10.9 mp digital camera (3872 x 2592 pixels)

Fuji FinePix S2 Pro 6.2 mp digital camera (4256 x 2848 pixels)
Nikon Coolpix 990 digital camera (2048 x 1536 pixels)
Nikon Coolpix 880 digital camera (2048 x 1536 pixels)

Film
Leitz Aristophot 35mm & 4" by 5" macro camera
Nikon 35mm cameras (four) (F3 & F601) with seven lenses
Mamiya 6cm x 6cm camera
Linhof Kardan 4” x 5”monorail view camera
16mm Bolex cameras with time lapse (two)
large Linhof copy stand
medium Leica copy stand

video equipment

Pulnix TM-1040 video camera
Dage IR-1000 low light video camera
Cohu 4815 low light video camera
Hamamatsu C24900 video camera with Intensifier
Panasonic colour video cameras (three)
Sony HDR-SR1 HD Handycam
Panasonic S-VHS camcorder
JVC ENG/EFP colour video camera
For-A VC-8 video counter
Sony Beta video recorder
Panasonic S-VHS editing video recorders (three)
Matrox Meteor II frame grabber
Coreco Oculus TCi frame grabber

computers & input devices

Apple G5 dual processor computer under OS X
Pentium computers (seven) under Windows XP
Polaroid SprintScan 35mm film scanner
Polaroid SprintScan 4" x 5" film scanner
Imaging Technology OFG frame grabber
Matrox Meteor II frame grabber
Canopus ADVC 100 analog to digital video converter
Firewire digital video input
Microtek V6usl flatbed scanner
Epson Perfection 4870 flatbed scanner

software

Graphics:
Media Cybernetics' ImageProPlus v. 6.1 (scientific image analysis)
ImageProcessing Tool Kit v. 4 (Photoshop plugin filters)

Adobe Photoshop CS 5.5 v. 12 (raster image editing)
Adobe Photoshop CS 4 v. 11 (raster image editing)
Adobe Photoshop CS 3 v. 10 (raster image editing)
Adobe Acrobat Pro CS 5 (PDF creation)
Adobe Acrobat Pro CS 4 (PDF creation)
Adobe InDesign CS 5 (page design & layout)
Adobe InDesign CS 4 (page design & layout)
Adobe Illustrator CS 5 (vector image editing)
Adobe Illustrator CS 4 (vector image editing)
Adobe Dimensions v. 3 (3-d rendering)
Adobe Streamline v. 4 (line art conversion)
Corel Draw v. 9 (vector image editing)
Corel Draw v. 8 (vector image editing)
SPSS SigmaPlot v. 8 (scientific graphing)
Gap Light Analyzer v. 2 (forest canopy analysis)

Media:
Apple Final Cut Pro 4 (non lineal video editing software)
Adobe Premier v. 6.5 (digital video editing)
Adobe GoLive CS3 (v. 9 html editing)
Adobe GoLive CS2 (v. 8 html editing)
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 (html editing)
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 (html editing)
Adobe Fireworks v. 2 (vector image editing)
Adobe Flash (Flash movie creation)

Wordprocessor and Programming:
Microsoft Office 2007 (word processor, spreadsheet, presentation)
Microsoft Office Mac 2011 (word processor, spreadsheet, presentation)
ScanSoft OmniPage v. 11 (optical character recognition software)
Microsoft Visual Basic v. 6 (programming language)
Microsoft Visual J++ (programming language)
Graphx RasterPlus raster image processor v.5

Uti
lities:
Norton AntiVirus
Norton Utilities
Power Quest Partition Magic v. 7
Stellar Phoenix NTFS Recovery

output devices

Epron Pro 3800 widebody inkjet printer
Epson 3000 A2 widebody inkjet printer
Lexmark C534n colour laser printer
Kyocera FS-C 5250dn colour laser printer
HP laser and inkjet printers (three)

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