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Home >> Life Science >> Microscopes & Imaging Systems >> Q-Color5 & Q-Color3 Digital Cameras

Olympus offers the Q-Color5™ and the Q-Color3™ , megapixel digital color cameras that deliver high-resolution images with outstanding detail for documentation and publication. The Q-Color5 offers 5.0 megapixels and the Q-Color3 offers 3.2 megapixels. The Q-Color cameras offer a Real-Time-Viewing (RTV) mode that provides a 30 frames per second seamless viewing experience. Both cameras are easy to set up and operate, utilizing FireWire™ technology for rapid image transfer. The Q-Color™ cameras are also offered with cooling for more demanding low light imaging applications. Integrating one of the Q-Color digital cameras with one of the Olympus MicroSuite™ imaging software packages will provide a seamless environment where images can be captured, processed and analyzed. The Q-Color cameras are ideal for a broad range of scientific light microscopy applications, satisfying most microscopists' imaging requirements.

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Q-Color5:
5-megapixel digital color camera utilizing FireWire technology. 2/3" Bayer color sensor with high 2580 x 1944 pixel resolution.

Q-Color3:
3.2 megapixel digital color camera utilizing FireWire technology. 1" x 1.8" (0.55") Bayer color sensor with high 2080 x 1542 pixel resolution.

Both Q-Color cameras include:

30/24 bit digitization and preview options
30 frames per second Real-Time-Viewing (RTV) mode
Binning in color; up to 4x4 . . . ideal for rapid previews and focusing
ROI selection for even faster frame rates
Live histogram for optimizing dynamic range
Live gain, offset, and zoom capabilities
Auto white balance or live color balancing of individual red, green and blue color channels
Optional cooled model with Peltier cooling to 10°C below ambient
The included QCapture Suite™ software is an easy-to-use image capture program.
The included QCapture Pro™ software offers more advanced acquisition and capture functions enabling optimization of the preview image.
PC & Mac™ compatible
TWAIN compliant driver with SDK available
Compact camera head connects directly to the FireWire port on a Mac with a single cable (PC's require PC Cardbus IEEE 1394 FireWire hardware), eliminating benchtop clutter
No framegrabber or power supply required - except with PC laptops

FireWire is a trademark of Apple Computer.
Q-Color5 & Q-Color3 are trademarks of Olympus.
QCapture Suite and QCapture Pro are trademarksof QImaging.