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Micro-Manager 1.4.10 (April 19, 2012)

Windows 32-bit, 40 MB
Windows 64-bit, 39 MB
Mac OS X (Universal Binary), 47 MB

(Click here for descriptions and downloads of previous releases.)

New Features in 1.4

• Windows native 64-bit support (not all devices are supported)
• Support for multiple cameras (see Utilities->Multi-camera adapter)
• Improved color camera live and snap
• Hardware triggering integrated with Multi-Dimensional Acquisition
• Enhanced Contrast Panels (ignore outliers)
• Saving and display on separate threads
• A new multi-dimensional acquisition engine (under the hood), including
  • a smart sequencer that uses burst acquisition whenever possible
  • an image pipeline allowing plugins to process images on the fly
  • a flexible metadata system for programmers
  • option to provide custom time intervals in MDA
• Close integration with ImageJ hyperstacks
  • four "dimension sliders": channels, slices, frames, positions
  • display of RAM- or disk-based image sets during or after acquisition, including disk-based image sets larger than available RAM
• An image display control panel (in the main window) that lets you
  • easily adjust contrast for each channel
  • add a scale bar
  • view metadata and add comments for image sets and individual image planes
• Simplified hardware configuration, including auto-detection and auto-setup of a number of serial devices.
• Data Browser plugin for quickly browsing through Micro-Manager data sets
• Well plate plugin (Big.jar, Karl Bellve)
• Clojure Editor Plugin
• Script interface to add runnables in acquisition engine
• Pluggable display API (ImageCacheListener)
• Automated bug reports, available in Help > Report Problem
• New/Improved device support:
  • New PI GCS adapter (Stephen Rau)
  • Improved Thorlabs DCxxxx (Olf Wohlmann)
  • PCO adapter now supports new CMOS cameras (Franz Reitner)
  • Support for nPoint stages (Mission Bay Imaging)
  • XCite LED (Mission Bay Imaging)
  • Thorlabs piezo stage (Nenad Amodaj)
  • Updated ABS Camera (now also 64-bit, Heiko Baumann)
  • ASI CRISP support, including plugin (Nico Stuurman)
  • Scientifica stages (Mathew Player)
  • Hamamatsu support by Hamamatsu (Patrick Gregorio), works with Flash 4.0
  • Fixes to ZeissCAN29
  • Thorlabs BD102 stage (Nenad Amodaj)
  • Andor3 (supports new Neos camera)
  • CARV II spinning disk confocal
  • MCU28 (Zeiss CAN XY stage - Nenad Amodaj)
  • Coherent Sapphire Laser (Karl Hoover and Paul Wiggins)
  • GigECamera (David Marshburn, UNC-CH)
  • Mac support for SPOT (Erwin Frise)
  • SimpleCam module with GPhoto support
  • Leica AFC (Hardware Autofocus)
  • New libusb drivers for K8055
  • Meiji Techno EMZ focus stage (Koen De Vleeschauwer)
  • Tethered Cameras (Canon and Nikon) (Koen De Vleeschauwer)
  • X-Cite 120PC Exacte (Mission Bay Imaging)
  • Image Processor Chain - provides sequencing of C++-based image processors in the Micro-Manager core

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