ImageJ Camera Plugin for Firewire Cameras
ImageJ Plugin IJ-FireCam for camera control and acquisition of live image streams in a true ImageJ image window (no Twain or similar!).

Thus ImageJ tools from the toolbar or the ImageJ API may be applied directly to the displayed live image stream. Moreover many functions of the Plugin may be called by
ImageJ Macros.


This Plugin can be used for any Firewire camera compliant to the DCAM standard (IIDC 1.31) running under Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 (32 bit Windows).

IJ-FireCam
is written entirely in Java!


Cameras which are not supported:
Since almost all firewire camera models  from microscopy companies follow proprietary protocolls, these cameras are not supported.

Functions:
  • Live image streams in true ImageJ image window
  • support of 8 bit and up to 16 bit gray streams
  • support of RGB streams (debayering done by PC, therefore better frame rates)
  • camera select
  • control of shutter, sharpness (contrast), gamma, gain, saturation, and white balance
  • applications of different LUTs to BW image streams
  • averaging images
  • selection of camera modes, partial scan, binning etc. (Format 7 only)
  • saving/recall of camera settings under preset buttons
  • macro control of several functions 
  • supports all external trigger modes of the camera
  • saving of  single image sequences at constant time intervals to image stack or files
  • simple installation of plugin
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FireCam Plugin

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For people who are new to ImageJ:
ImageJ is a powerful image processing software which lets the user perform simple and sophisticated image analysis and measurements required in sciences. ImageJ  is showing its power when processing images derived from microscopy (various measurements, co-localization, various transforms, FFT, deconvolution, 3D reconstruction etc.), but it  has also functions to perform densitometry or estimations of molecular weight on images derived from electrophoretic 1D gels or dot blots.

ImageJ is free! For more details please see: http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/

Firewire Camera
Firewire Cameras of the NET FOculus or AVT Stingray series

Specfications
  • models with 0.3 to 5.0 mill. pixel,
  • black and white,  8 bit or 12 bit  modes
  • color versions
  • max. exposure time up to 65 sec (NET)  or 67 sec (AVT)
  • all cameras purchased from us are delivered with above ImageJ Plugin
  • more specifications
ImageJ
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ImageJ showing density plot of 1D gel

PHASE has added some Plugins and Macros for convenient gel evaluation.