To acquire live images (i.e. grab images and display them on screen), simply press the Live button. You will get images which are acquired and displayed according to the chosen settings. The program uses the same image buffer for consecutively acquired images and only keeps the last acquired image after the stop.
If you acquire an image of the type Fluorescence, the monochromator switches to the appropriate wavelength at the beginning of the Camera Exposure Time and switches back to the dark position at the end.
To acquire only one image you can use the Snapshot button.
Image Type:
Binning: is a synonym of on-chip-integration. With a binning factor of two, the camera accumulates four adjacent pixels to improve both sensitivity and speed, at the expense of resolution. As a result of lowered resolution further image processing is faster because of smaller image size.