Microscope Camera series K3
The new K3 color and monochrome microscope cameras can be used for a wide range of life science and industrial applications. It can discriminate fine differences in color and gray levels for bright-field applications of biological and material samples.
With 16x finer graduation compared to cameras with 8-Bit sensors, the K3, with its 12-bit sensor and a high dynamic range, allows quantifiable images to be gained even for challenging applications. The high frame rates of up to 39 fps for viewing live images and excellent color reproduction give the camera a well-balanced set of features for many documentation tasks.
For applications that require fast scanning of sample areas, the K3 cameras combined with the LAS X Navigator, Steel Expert, or Cleanliness Expert software modules achieve results fast, thanks to their large CMOS sensor and high frame rates.
Users are free to optimize the cameras to best address their specific needs, as the camera features are highly customizable.
The K3 microscope camera delivers good all-round performance for a vast range of sample types.
Acquiring quantifiable data from challenging samples
The K3 cameras offer very good dynamic range enabling you to capture quantifiable images for downstream analysis for many challenging samples. Whether you image material samples which are highly reflective or light-absorbing surfaces or fluorescent samples with regions of dazzling and weak signals, the K3 cameras are up to the challenge.
Excellent true color reproduction
The 12-bit excellent color reproduction ability of the color K3 camera enables you to capture the large color depth and extract more detail from your samples.
Samples and specimens often contain subtle color variations which allow you to distinguish between different features and regions of interest and work out what is really going on in transition zones between various parts of the specimen.
Improve your throughput
Samples of interest can be large and need to be imaged in high resolution, requiring a system capable of area scanning and image stitching.
The large sensor and high frame rates make the K3 cameras ideal for area scanning applications when combined with the LAS X Navigator and Steel/Cleanliness Expert software modules.
Technical Specifications
| Sensor type | CMOS |
| Senosr size (diagonal). | 8.92 mm |
| Sensor format | 3072 px x 2048 px |
| Pixel dimensions | 2.4 μm x 2.4 μm |
| Shutter mode | Rolling, Global reset |
| Data interface | USB 3 |
| Mechanical interface | C-mount |
| Exposure range | 1 ms - 10 s |
| Frames per second | 32 fps |
| Triggering | M8/8-Pin connector (only K3M is triggerable) |
| Sensor cooling | Passive |
| Dark noise | 2.8 e- (median) |
| Full well capacity | 14000 e- |
| Dynamic Range | up to 72 dB |
| Bit depth / Colour depth | 3 x 12 -bit = 32-bit RGB, 12-bit mono |
| Binning options | 2x2 |
| Optical filter | 650 nm IR cut off filter |
| Operating system | Windows with LAS X application |
| Power consumption | 3 W |
| Operation temperature | 5 °C - 40 °C |
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