Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B.D. Colen wrote: > Olympus is making far more than a 'run' in digital - Olympus is the no. > 1 selling brand of digital cameras today - albeit most of them are P&S > type models. But that is clearly where photography is going, so more > power to Olympus for leading the pack for once, rather than trailing > behind. As B.D. says, Olympus have not been asleep- they've just been active in markets that 35 mm SLR customers might not have been watching. Olympus research microscopes kick ass - have for some time now - and this is well known in both the research and clinical markets. We've looked hard at top-line research 'scopes from Nikon, Leica (now a finanacially independent entity from the camera group), Zeiss and Olympus. We're down to Zeiss and Olmympus, and if Zeiss wins it will be due to the fit of feature list to our specific application, *not* optical or mechanical superiority. So our question is: a German microscope with a Japanese (Hamamatsu) CCD camera? Or a Japanese microscope with a German CCD camera (Sensicam)? I should be confronted by choices like this all the time ;-). Alexey Merz Department of Biochemistry Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover NH 03755-3844 alexey@webcom.com | alexey@dartmouth.edu 603-650-1702 | http://www.webcom.com/alexey/ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html