Cheap Photodocumentation

[lees at SASK.USASK.CA]

Anyway, I'm quite happy with those. Besides, it's color and you can use 
camcorder for your lab occasions and can grab. I used to use it taking 
experiments pictures and ouput through 360x360 Cannon colorjet printer. 
They are almost picture quality but you have to use special paper not 
ordinary xerox paper. I used to make posters for presentation with this 
way. You can annotate whatever you like. Then I sometimes make that into 
slide directly from Powerpoint. They looked beatiful.
I don't think $20,000 gel documentation system can do these. 
Isn't it B/W, that CCD camera?
Actually, that system has same function as frame grabber. Why you wanna 
pay more money for B/W camera? GE has $550 camcorder with high enough 
quality for this.

I mean, it is  much much cheaper even with high performance!!!
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On Mon, 21 Aug 1995, Torsten Boerchers wrote:

> lees at SASK.USASK.CA wrote:
> >
> >
> >On Sun, 20 Aug 1995, sabah hussain wrote:
> >
> >> Dear netters. I am in the process of establishing a photodocumentation >> system for quantifying EthrB stained gels, ......
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> >Choice #1
> >1. buy color scanner (<$800)
> >2. scan all your photo, save as *.tif file format
> >3. load into MS powerpoint or Harvard graphics or freelance
> >4. you can do more than you can imagine 
> >5. print into color output (color printer must be over 360x360 dpi, <$700)
> >6. Or print into B/W using laser printer (over 600 dpi, you'll get photo 
> >    quality output with this, <$1000)
> >
> >Choice #2
> >1. buy camcorder (<$700)
> >2. buy frame grabber (<$400)
> >3. grab the frame from illuminator
> >4. save as *.tif file format
> >5. goto #3 at Choice 1
> >
> >
> >You may already have some of listed devices at your lab, of course include
> >486 computers.
> >
> >Compare this to more than $10,000 worth of commercial system.
> >commercial systems includes camera and grabber and limited application 
> >programs but mostly they are B/W. You can switch into color system buying 
> >camcorder with frame grabber.
> >
> >Lee
> >
> Unfortunately the above described set up will only work for photos, 
> autoradiographs or electrophoresis gels (Coomassie, Silver staining).
> For EtBr you need coupling to a UV illuminator. But you may buy a CCD
> camera and grabber (see above) from specialist photo shops.
> A first step towards handling of e.g. tif files is paint shop pro,
> which is free/share ware an can be obtained at various places on the net.
> BTW, any good more advanced programme for handling , molecular weight
> and integration (not bandlead) of DNA/protein gels?
> So long
> Torsten
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