A general rule of thumb is to set the exposure of camera 1 to be the same or longer than the read-out of the sensor. If the exposure for camera 1 is too short there won’t be sufficient pulses available to trigger camera 2 to acquire all of the images in a kinetic series. The exposure of camera 1 needs to be set marginally longer than the exposure of camera 2. In this mode camera 2 will wait in a state of readiness for camera 1 to 'trigger it' to capture images.Using the trigger cables supplied with the camera, attach the Aux Out 1 ‘Fire’ cable of camera 1 (master) to the ‘External Trigger’ cable of camera 2 (peripheral) via a BNC connector.Set the trigger of camera 2 to be external.Set the trigger of camera 1 to be internal.Each software is capable of synchronizing the cameras under a ‘Master and Peripheral’ arrangement or alternatively a simultaneous external trigger can be provided to both cameras.įor a Master and Peripheral set-up: camera 1 (Master) will trigger camera 2 (Peripheral) to acquire images.In order to set up the cameras to acquire simultaneously and synchronously in either Solis (or iQ), two instances of the software are required to be open, one for each camera.Simultaneous Imaging with two cameras using Andor Solis (version 06 onwards) and Andor iQ (version 2.6). Solis and iQ requires two instances of software

MetaMorph- also possible as described here:.

CellSens – possible in cellSens Dimension software for Andor sCMOS.

Frame rates comparable between single and dual camera for given ROIs. Refer to the NIS-Elements manual for Sona.

NIS-elements – yes under “Dual Andor Sona/Neo/Zyla”.

Fusion dual camera simultaneous acquisition as part of a Dragonfly system.

For example run using a TuCam and then use merge functions in e.g.

micro-manager in one instance of the software.

There are a number of ways that this can be done – and it can be done quite easily.

Most common would be a dual camera acquisition setup. Sometimes you may want to run a multi-camera imaging setup. How to run Dual Camera Acquisition for sCMOS Cameras

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