Using DV camcorders and digital cameras in connection with LM Digital Adapters for microscopy


Purpose: Live video watching by using different methods
 

Used instruments: LM Digital Adapter,  Zeiss Standard Microscope, Sony DV Camcorder DCR PC 120E, Nikon Coolpix 990, Notebook Gericom Webboy XL1000

Compared to normal digital cameras, modern DV Camcorders offer a lot of advantages: actually, the purposes of DV camcorders  and of digital cameras  overlapping in several functions. Both a digital camera and a camcorder offer the possibility to take photos as well as videos and to show them on a big screen.
In the following, you can find some examples of how to connect your camcorder or digital camera in order to watch your microscope images. For these application examples, a camcorder Sony DCR PC120E and a digital camera Nikon Coolpix 4500 were used.
Connecting your digital camera to a TV monitor
Connecting your digital camera to a computer via video output
Connecting your DV camcorder to a TV monitor
Connecting your DV camcorder to a computer via FireWire® output
Setting up and editing a database of video sequences by using the video compression system DivX®
Demo video sequences edited by the video compression system DivX® 5 in microscopy

New LM Digital-Adapter for:
Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III / Nikon D3 / Nikon D300 / Olympus E-3 / Canon EOS 450D / Digital Rebel XSi / Canon EOS 1D Mark III / Sony Alpha 350 / Olympus E-330 / Olympus E-510 / Sony Alpha 300 / Olympus E-410 / Olympus E-520 / Panasonic Lumix DMC-L10 / Pentax K20D / Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II / Canon EOS 40D / Samsung GX-20 / Leica Digilux 3 / Canon EOS 5D / Sony Alpha 700 / Canon EOS 400D / Digital Rebel XTi / Olympus E-400 / Sigma SD14 / Canon EOS 30D / Kodak DCS Pro 14n / Kodak DCS Pro SLRc / Canon EOS 1D Mark II / Canon PowerShot S80 / Kodak DCS Pro SLRn / Canon EOS 20D / Canon EOS 20Da / Canon EOS 350D / Digital Rebel XT / Canon EOS 1D Mark II N / Fujifilm FinePix S5 Pro / Olympus C-7070 Wide Zoom / Nikon D2X / Canon EOS 10D / Canon EOS 300D / Digital Rebel / Nikon D200 / Olympus C-5060 Wide Zoom / Sigma SD9 / Pentax K10D / Sigma SD10 / Nikon Coolpix 4500 / Olympus E-300 / Nikon Coolpix 990 / Olympus E-500 / Nikon Coolpix 995 / Fujifilm FinePix S3 Pro / Nikon D2Xs / Nikon Coolpix P5100 /




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