ProgRes® CF Series Camera Applications

The ProgRes® CF series cameras have a wide variety of applications. Below you will find images that were captured with either the CF cameras with different microscopes.

Captured with ProgRes® CFscan microscope camera.

Industrial foam manufacturing focuses on the speed of development and size of bubbles inside the foam. These parameters are essential when evaluating the quality of the foam and determining its stability.

Quality control of the foam properties is performed with a stereo microscope. The ProgRes® CFscan microscope camera is an ideal camera for this application due to its high speed live image and the high resolution of up to 12.5 million pixels. The external trigger of the camera allows time-controlled imaging and recording of the different stages during foam development under the microscope.

Many customers require color cameras for fluorescence applications to directly visualize the differently colored cells in an image at one time. Although color cameras are not as sensitive as monochrome cameras due to the color mask in front of the sensor, sensitive color cameras are available to fulfil the basic needs for this application. In this case, the ProgRes® CF and CFcool cameras are the first choice.

Compared to the ProgRes® C3 and C5 cameras, the ProgRes® CF offers the following important advantages:

• The ProgRes® CF has a higher base sensitivity through larger pixels and up to 8 times analog gain
• The ProgRes® CF has a higher pixel clock and therefor higher frame rates in live image and image capture
• The live image in the ProgRes® CF is free of interlace effects

Additionall, the ProgRes® CFcool has further benefits:

• Thermo electrical cooling, sensor capsule and Peltier fan
• Professional 14bit digitization provides more information for analysis