What You Need to Run Triggered Acquisition

Cameras

The following cameras are supported for triggering within NIS-Elements.

Andor

Clara, Clara E
iXon Series
Luca^EM Series
Neo
Zyla

Photometrics

CoolSNAP KINO
CoolSNAP MYO
QuantEM 512SC
Cascade® Series
Evolve Series

Note

CoolSNAP HQ² was removed from the list due to a bug found in the camera firmware. Photometrics does not plan to fix it at the moment.

Hamamatsu

ORCA-R2
ORCA-Flash4.0
ORCA-Flash2.8
ImagEM

Note

The triggering is supported in single-camera and in dual-camera system setups as well.

Devices

The following devices are supported for triggering within NIS-Elements.

Wavelength Switchers

CoolLED pE-x
Sutter Lambda DG-4/5
Lumencor Aura/Spectra Light Engines
Nikon LU-N Series
Nikon LU4A
Agilent MLC 400

Piezo Z Drives

Prior NanoScanZ PiezoZ
Physik Instrumente E-665, E-712 and E-861 PiezoZ
Mad City Labs Nano-Drive PiezoZ

Software Licences

RT Acquisition, trigger control (LW_RTPIZMUX)

This software licence is needed to run any triggered acquisition. Select the RT Acquisition, trigger control module within the AHUS ordering system.

Wavelength Switcher (LW_WAVESW)

This software licence is needed to run any of the supported wavelength-switching illumination devices. It also includes licences for a Filterwheel and a Shutter. Select the Wavelength Switcher device within the AHUS ordering system.