Cameras

ZEISS Axiocam 203 mono

Your 3 Megapixel Stand-Alone Microscope Camera for Fluorescence Documentation

ZEISS Axiocam 203 mono is your 3-megapixel monochrome camera especially designed for routine fluorescence microscopy tasks. With its built-in CMOS sensor, the camera can operate independently without a PC, allowing you to easily acquire monochrome images.

Flexible use: choose between three modes of operation, even operate this microscope camera in stand-alone mode without a PC
Automatic adjustments: parameters such as exposure, white balance and gain are set automatically
Supports smart microscopy: acquire multichannel fluorescence images at the touch of a button

Choose Between Three Modes of Operation

Stand-alone mode: you don’t need a PC to acquire microscope images. The camera automatically adjusts brightness and white balance and offers live image enhancement functions like sharpening, denoising and HDR.

Or, connect Axiocam 203 mono with ZEISS Labscope imaging software via USB, network and Wi-Fi connection for enhanced functionality and ease of use.

Additionally, you can connect the camera to ZEN software for image acquisition and further analysis or processing.

ZEISS Axiocam 203 mono is recommended for:

Applications with bright fluorescence samples
Documentation
Education / Teaching
Fluorescence imaging applications with live and fixed cells
Documentation of fluorescent cell cultures
Routine tasks in cell laboratories

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Smart Digital Documentation of Fluorescence Images

If you combine Axiocam 203 mono with ZEISS Axiolab 5, Axioscope 5 or Axioscope 7 microscope stands you can experience the full concept of smart microscopy. The camera communicates with the microscope and always extracts the correct scaling information.

You benefit from:

Automatic adjustments for high color and contrast reproducibility.
An integrated system that saves you both space and money because no extra computer is needed.
Image data completeness since all metadata, including scaling, are automatically stored with your images.

… and all it takes is just a simple press of the Snap button.

Relative spectral sensitivity of ZEISS Axiocam 203 mono

Highlights of Axiocam 203 mono

3 Megapixel CMOS chip sensor with sensor diagonal of 9.2 mm (full sensor) and large pixel size of 3.7 μm for high sensitivity in fluorescence documentation
Choose between 12 bit or 8 bit digitization
Store images directly on USB flash drive in stand-alone mode or network via USB connection and Wi-Fi
Single button multichannel fluorescence acquisition when combined with Axiolab 5, Axioscope 5 or Axioscope 7 stands
Automatic exposure, white balance and gain adjustment for easy fluorescence image capture
Connect directly to a monitor by a HDMI cable for imaging with up to 30 fps full HD in stand alone mode.

Application Examples

FluoCells in fluorescence contrast

FluoCells in fluorescence contrast
FluoCells in fluorescence contrast

FluoCells in fluorescence contrast
Hela Kyoto #7 (Alexa 488, Alexa 647 and Hoechst 33342) in fluorescence contrast, acquired with ZEISS Axioscope 5, objective: EC-Plan Neofluar, 40×

Hela Kyoto #7 (Alexa 488, Alexa 647 and Hoechst 33342) in fluorescence contrast, acquired with ZEISS Axioscope 5, objective: EC-Plan Neofluar, 40×

ZEISS Axiocam 203 mono and Axiocam 212 color are supported from ZEISS Labscope 4.4 You can download the software via the portal or the app stores for free.
You can do measurements in the live image in stand-alone mode via the OSD. No additional hardware or software is required.
The automated functions such as white balance are available via USB, Ethernet, Wi-Fi and HDMI.
ZEISS Axiocam 203 mono and Axiocam 212 color get their power via an external power supply.
Yes, TWAIN plugin is available.
Yes, you can control the cameras via ZEISS Labscope or ZEN and simultaneously show the image on HDMI monitor. But, you cannot control by OSD while the camera is controlled by ZEN or Labscope.
Axiocam 203 mono and 212 color are not Wi-Fi cameras - but you can buy a ZEISS Wi-Fi adapter separately (5 GHz / 2.4 GHz) to connect to network.
The sensor diagonal for full sensor is 9.3 mm, for lower resolution 8.2 mm. A C-mount adapter of 0.5x is recommended for the adaptation to the microscope. With a 0.5x adapter a large field with an image diagonal of approximately 18.6 mm would be captured for full sensor acquisition, for lower resolution an image diagonal of approximately 16.4 mm would be captured. If necessary, the use of shading correction function is available to keep the image free from vignetting.

Downloads

ZEISS Axiocam 203 mono

Your 3 Megapixel Stand-alone Microscope Camera for Fluorescence Documentation

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ZEISS Axiocam Family

Your Guide to Microscope Camera Technology from ZEISS

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