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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
Note
Burst acquisition (formerly a separate utility in 1.3) has been merged with multi-dimensional acquisition -- if you want to do a burst, simply select "Time Points" only and set the time interval to 0.