This unique device comes from FRAEN in Italy. Visit: www.fraensrl.com. The photo shown is a LED module that is connected to the dust window of an upright microscope and the LED modules are fully interchangeable for the visable spectrum. Three models are offered ... one with fixed intensity and another with variable intensity. A third option includes variable intensity adjust for up to three LED modules connected at one time. Older microscopes can be easily adapted to accept the LED module and usually will fit directly to the dust window below the substage condenser.

These are ideal systems for clinical fluorescence microscopy or retro-fitting your existing microscope for fluorescence. The LED is going to run for at least 30,000 hours and that translates to very efficient energy use without using a mercury arc lamp. Expected lifetime is 14 years if you use the system five days a week at 8 hours per day. This also would save you over $30,000.00 in mercury arc lamps and may play a part in cleaning up our environment while offering a very efficient solution for your fluorescence studies.

A battery pack is offered as an option and the system shown (with Motic BA300) is easily linked to a Peltier-cooled digital camera for image capture and archiving.

Typical retro-fits will be under $5000.00 — contact us for further details or a quote.

This new camera uses the latest Sony CCD and cools that sensor to 30 degrees C below ambient temperature. It is one of the only Peltier cooled digital cameras on the market with USB2 connectivity.

Modern design with c-mount fixturing allows this new camera to be used with just about any microscope with a photoport. 30fps focusing mode and 5fps at high resolution. Use in Windows with your laptop or desktop. Amazing selling price of $1999.00!! This is the perfect imaging solution for use with the FRAEN LED Fluorescence set up.

See our Digital and Video Microscopy Page for details on several other new cameras and couplers ... including a 9MP CMOS camera!

DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY?
Since the term was first used in 1995 we have seen silver halide film pretty much replaced by the digital camera ... really disruptive I think for the likes of Kodak, Fuji et al. Now we are seeing more "disruption" in the field of optical microscopy ... due to more powerful PCs, improved digital cameras and microscope designs that replace those from over 100 years ago! Much of the "disruption" is due to lower prices for technology that is superior to what has been around for all these years. The MicroQC interferometric instrument is the least expensive sub-micron surface profiling system on the market. Retro-Opsis DV is the only PC-based, full motion S3D system for use on stereoscopic microscopes ... with the lowest price tag. Now the new Infinity Photo Optical (Boulder, CO USA) Infiniprobe TS160 instrument is introduced to the world market as an alternative to putting a camera on a stereo microscope ... with far better results, more compact design for field use and lower price than a NOZL CMO stereo microscope or macrozoom.

A unique feature of the INFINIPROVE TS160 is the ability to set it up for either "macro" (0 to 4x) or "micro" (0 to 16x) ... AND have the ability to use a DSLR camera or the Bunton 6MP T-mounted large format digital color camera with Sony CCD. Note that the new 6MP large format camera is only 80mm x 100mm x 45mm and connects to your Windows PC via USB2. There is no mirror vibration to eliminate as with a DSLR ... view directly from your laptop screen for focusing, composition and image capture! Both the Infiniprobe TS 160 and LF 6T camera are under $3000.00 each. Set-ups are available for use in the lab or in the field ... very "disruptive" and the perfect solution for today's reduced equipment budgets and grants.