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HolyLab / Imagine

A graphical interface for recording with OCPI microscopes.
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Set noise filter for PCO cameras? #37

Closed Cody-G closed 7 years ago

Cody-G commented 7 years ago

Looking through the PCO camera manual again I noticed that it's possible to turn on a noise filtering mode using the function PCO_SetNoiseFilterMode, documented on page 79 of the current manual. I've noticed increased CMOS-related noise at high framerates, so we may want to switch on this filter. It may already be on by default, but that's not clear in the manual.

The camera also offers "hot pixel" correction, which will remove and mark hot or stuck pixels from the images in real time. I'm less confident that this will be useful to us, but something to keep in mind.

kdw503 commented 7 years ago

Imagine is using both modes now.

Cody-G commented 7 years ago

Thanks for checking! Interesting, I didn't know we were already using the hot pixel correction. It's not clear to me from the manual whether this is useful, but let's just keep things the same.