High-quality Micrographs at a Low Price

Carl Zeiss is adding with two new models to its line of entry-level digital cameras for photomicrography: the 1.4 megapixel AxioCam ICc1 and the 3.3 megapixel AxioCam ICc3. The cameras with C-mount adapter are ideal for general micrographs of color objects when sufficient light is available, e.g. for all brightfield micrographs in materials microscopy. Due to their performance, these cameras provide an economical solution for routine industrial applications or simple documentation tasks in laboratories. They are directly integrated into the AxioVision software and permit fast, high- resolution live images (17 images per second with AxioCam ICc1 and 6 to 39 images per second with AxioCam ICc3) and fast FireWire data transfer of the images. These new cameras have made it possible to replace video cameras with framegrabber interface technology that have often been used until now for cost reasons, and have led to a marked improvement in image quality.