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Sequence acquisition dialogue box.
The sequence acquisition dialogue box consists of two parts, the lower one containing controls for the sequence display and the upper one containing controls
for the sequence acquisition.
In the upper right half of the dialogue box you find some information
about the current system status:
Disk space displays the actual free space on disk.
Bytes / image displays the number of bytes which one image occupies.
Free images display the estimated number of images which can be
saved to disk, before the disk gets full.
Time left (s) displays the number of seconds until start of the next
acquisition. This is useful if you use long intervals.
The program calculates the number of bytes needed for all images in
the series and outputs an informative message if the remaining space on
disk is not sufficient.
At first you have to select the Acquisition mode you want to use and the
number of images you want to record (No. of loops).
Then you can select the timing of the sequence. Choices are Full speed or
Fixed intervals. If you select Full speed the camera is running freely and the
sequence is recorded with this timing. Immediately after the acquisition and
storage of an image the next acquisition will be executed. The time interval is
just defined by the exposure time, the readout time, the response time of the mechanical shutter and the data storage time.
Note: Fast disk recording works with Live mode and Full speed setting only.
If you select Fixed intervals you can define the interval from one acquisition
to the next (examples of allowed formats: 500ms, 2.5s, 1m). This interval should
of course be larger than the time needed for acquisition, readout and data storage.
It is possible to acquire only a part of the image by selecting the checkbox Acquire ROI. In order to use this function, you have to define a ROI first by using
the area ROI tool. Then click Get ROI to select (activate) the ROI.
134 • Acquisition Menu
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