Image Acquisition

IPLab’s Acquire commands handle all of the image acquisition parameters for you, including exposure time, image size, binning factor, time lapse and even hardware device (shutter and filter) control. What's more, our Acquire commands present you with control of all this in a coherent manner. You only need to enter these parameters once, and then you can quickly reuse them for any and all additional image captures.

You can easily build a library of different acquisitions for use during your experiment. By recording acquisition commands with IPLab’s powerful scripting feature, you can automate your acquisitions and entire experiments.

The ability of IPLab to control all aspects of image capture, coupled with the versatility of scripting acquisition routines, make gathering your data much easier and faster.

IPLab ships with the full suite of camera controls. As we add new support for devices, we will freely distribute the new camera controls from our Downloads page.

IPLab Image Acquisition Features*

• Auto-exposure algorithm produces accurate exposures based on current light conditions
• Control of exposure time, gain, and binning
• Sum and average image processing options
• Full frame CCD or subarray acquisition
• Integrated shutter control
• Integrated control of filter switcher and focus (Z) motors in appropriate acq. commands
• Integrated time lapse feature
• Three-channel color acquisition for monochrome cameras, Single pass color acquisition for color cameras
• Live preview options allow real-time control of acquisition parameters
• Automatic display normalization
• Automatic dark and bias image acquisition for image correction
• Hardware trigger for external devices
• Option to save data directly to disk during long sequence acquisitions
• Scriptable features allowing automated acquisition routines

* Some features depend upon specific hardware

Continue Reading

Please continue reading about Image Acquisition:

• Supported Cameras : Lists the cameras and frame grabbers that IPLab suports
• Choosing a Camera : Some advice for selecting a scientific camera
• IPLab : Information about IPLab, our image acquisition, processing, and analysis program for Windows