OMAX - 14 MP Digital USB Microscope Camera with Advanced Software and Calibration Slide (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux Compatible) 14 MP High Resolution - A35140U

Great little device -- just pull out your eyepiece, slip this in, plug it into your USB port and voila! The stripped-down version of ToupView worked almost effortlessly. The photos are pretty much just as sharp as I can see through the eyepiece, meaning presumably that it is limited by the optics of the microscope, not defects in its own optics or sloppiness in the interface with the scope. I've attached photos of two lichenicolous fungi: first two = Lichenostigma maureri and last = Sphaerellothecium abditum. The last photo is minimally stacked from three photos in order to maximize the detailed texture visible in the cell wall. Note scale bars to give an idea how clear these came out. I calculated that at full-resolution at 1000x (oil immersion) I get 37 pixels per micron, or 27 nm per pixel -- that's less than a tenth of the wavelength of visible light (390-700 nm). Yep, that's overkill. :) Linux users: In all fairness, it must be pointed out that the software is very minimal: you can adjust resolution, color balance, exposure, histograms, frame rate, and maybe one or two other things, but that's it: you snap photos or movies, and save them, nothing else. Also, the device is not recognized presently by the latest ubuntu release (kernel 3.19.0-18-generic), so you cannot use cheese or guvcview with it. This will probably change soon, I'm guessing it's just a matter of adding some device ids to an existing driver, but even that much is beyond me! Fortunately, ToupView doesn't care if the device isn't recognized; it worked fine for me anyway.

This camera really has improved my ability to use my OMAX M82ES microscope. I have so many floaters that high magnification basically shows the reflection of what's in my eyes and so is very hard for me to get the most out of the microscope. Not so with this camera! The software, TroupView, needed to use it however works very well on Windows 7, but is not available for the Mac OS. Instead they give you TroupLite which is sufficient for my needs at present except for one thing, namely the video resolution (or some other function) produces movies that look pixilated at the same basic resolution that I use on Windows. The display and pictures it produces is the same. It is only movies that suffer. Since it appears that neither Mac OS or Windows can use this device as a webcam (too many pixels?) you really have to use the Troup software so I'm a bit frustrated. Does anyone know of any other software that can be used? I'll happily give this camera another star if this problem gets resolved because the hardware is indeed excellent and it works so well on Windows.

I use it with a Nikon SMZ745T (Trinocular) microscope attached to a Mac Pro system. Simply stated, it works flawlessly. I get finely detailed, sharp images up to about 40 diameters which are about 35 Mb in size. There are no instructions of any kind that I could find however for anyone familiar with digital image management software, e.g., Photoshop,etc., image management is easy. It took a few tries to get some other features working save, delete, new image and so on. but it ws certainly not a real problem of any consequence. I love it and use it frequently in my research. I have attached a "test" of a 6mm tall lotus from a Nepalese coin. The frame as taken has the potential of being an 8" by 10" photographic print.

I've been using an older non-digital camera with my microscope, and it appears as if I've been spoiled. The images with my older camera were far, and above, better than this one. I do like the software, however. With the software, I'm able to save images as snapshots or moving images which is great for my work. I use a phase contrast microscope for live blood cell analysis

I bought this to run on my mac, but when I run ToupLite, it starts and allows me to select the camera but the stalls and gives me an error window "Cannot preview, please re-plug the device and try again". Needless to say, re-plugging it doesn't work. PLEASE HELP!

I bought this for my wife for her graduation (with a degree in Biology). She was excited to get it and try it out on her Celestron Professional Biological Microscope 1500 (Item#44108). It fit easily into one of the eyepieces, and plugged into her Windows 8 laptop. We installed the software and loaded a prepared slide to test. It came right up, no driver issues or complicated setup. She will need some practice with the software since there are MANY things that it can do. The software came on CD so we had to copy its contents to a flash drive since her laptop doesn't have an optical drive, but that we done easily. We are very pleased with the picture quality, ease of use, and capabilities of this product. I've also posted here the very first picture we took with this camera...a Tillia Stem.

I had a 5 mp camera and had several problems with it. After receiving this new 14mp camera I believe it is a factory defect. So I decided to get this camera and it is perfect. the quality and picture is as good as you could expect on a ccd camera. The OMAX microscope has the quality to go high resolution with near perfect optics. So this is a good addition to the scope. I'm very glad I upgraded to it. There are No bad pixels and excellent quality.

The unit works OK with Windows but I could not get it to run in Ubuntu Linux, tried 10.04 and 12.04, and there is nowhere to obtain assistance. However, the software is great and the images are sharp. Very well built and machined. This is an excellent unit for use with an older high quality microscope.