Micro*Color and Macro*Color

Wavelength Tuning for Exquisite Color with Grayscale Cameras

  
Micro*Color™ sliders and optical coupler-mounted RGB filters with Liquid Crystal technology bring precise, quantitative color to microscopy.  Macro*Color™ RGB filters offer a large aperture for custom OEM applications. These filters capture exact color information at every pixel by taking each red, green, and blue color plane in sequence and in perfect registration - no spatial interpolation necessary. This enhances resolution compared to ordinary "painted-pixel" CCD cameras, and also avoids the color shading inherent in three-CCD designs as well as the complexity of pixel-shift systems. 

Roper Industries^® is the exclusive worldwide distributor of CRi (now part of Caliper Life Sciences) Micro*Color RGB tunable filters. In addition, Quantitative Imaging (QImaging™) incorporates Micro*Color filters into compact accessory modules that are attached directly to their industry-leading cameras. Filters are also available with separate USB controller boxes.

• Solid-state design for rapid, vibrationless wavelength tuning
• Sliders fit into the infinity slot of many popular microscopes
• Compatible with popular image capture and analysis programs
• Uninterpolated, full color at every pixel for true color images

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Figures: 1) Micro*Color 0.65x coupler for microscopes with a C-mount camera port, 2) Macro*Color 35 mm-aperture filter for machine-vision or other macro-imaging applications.

Various adapters are available for C-mount, F-mount, T-mount, or lens thread interfaces.