Re: [micro-manager-general] not (yet) supported cameras in micro-manager - general question

[André L. (FU B. <al...@ze...>]

Hi Geoff, Dan and everybody,

I got the cam to run!

For the cam I got, which is a E3CMOS Series C-mount USB3.0 CMOS Camera 
E3CMOS02300KPA EP102300A, 2.3MegaPixel, Sony back illum. Chip it worked 
as fallows:
There are two general drivers for all Toup Tek Cams from Nov 21st 2016, 
one "DirectShow" and one TWAIN driver. Installing the TWAIN driver did 
not help, MM 1.4 and 2.0 beta3 crashed on me when adding the cam, but I 
think this is due to TWAIN not working (could not find the post again, 
talking about this). Anyway, installing the latest DirctShow driver lets 
you use the cam with openCVgrabber. only downside of this: I can not 
change "resolution" in the device property manager. The cam has two 
settings, 1920x1200 and 960x600 (for more FPS). The latter 960x600 is 
not an option in the drop down there, so the cam is always set to 
1920x1200. With that setting I get the same fps as in ToupView, which is 
around 6-8 fps, way lower than the promised 38fps, sadly. But I will 
play around with it some more.

Links to drivers:
http://www.teleskop-austria.at/information/pdf/MicroQ_Driver-ToupTekToupcamDshowSetup.exe
http://www.teleskop-austria.at/information/pdf/MicroQ_Driver-ToupTekToupcamTwainSetup.exe

In any case: anyone tinkering around with hobbyist stuff feel free to 
contact me. I would like to hear more about using MM not only in a 
professional lab context.

Cheers, André

Am 10.12.2017 um 08:09 schrieb Geoff Pickford:
> Hi Dan and Andre,
>
> I have been successful in linking the AmScope MU503B with MM, and I 
> can now do a live Plot Profile on a live image  so as to find the very 
> best focus point - as well as measure gray levels.  However, as I 
> pointed out in my recent post, there is a problem with the embedded 
> ImageJ Plot Profile as there is not a 1:1 correspondence between the 
> cursor position and graph scale as soon as the ‘Y’ axis changes due to 
> a change is focus etc.  To overcome this, I simply focus using Plot 
> Profile, close the Plot Profile window and re-start it again to 
> achieve 1:1 correspondence,  The cursor then matches the plot “y” values.
>
> I would however like to find out how to fix this and also to link up a 
> Tuscsen ISH500 camera to MM.  I will also try OpenCVgrabber.
>
>
> Geoff Pickford
>
>
> Pickford Resources Pty Ltd
> PO Box 618, Wollongong, NSW, 2500
> Laboratory Fax:  02 4227 6673.  Mobile:  0417 417 507
>
>> On 10 Dec 2017, at 6:44 AM, Roy G. Biv <roy...@gm... 
>> <mailto:roy...@gm...>> wrote:
>>
>> I think that the AmScope cameras are rebranded Touptek cameras. At 
>> least a few of the AmScope cameras are supposed to work together with 
>> micromanager. I first wanted to use the Toupview software (or 
>> AmScopes rebranded version) for horizontal line measurements but 
>> discovered that this wasn't possible in live view. I have not tried 
>> MM yet.
>>
>> Dan
>>