Now (January 2016) I can present the combined version: MICAM 2.0 As my spare time is limited I thought of a method of combining MICAM and DIGAM. The problem for me was that I now had to maintain two programs, so if I came up with a new feature I had to implement it twice. The method is so simple, that I think it is applicable to other cameras as well. This resulted in DIGAM.ĭIGAM uses a simple method to grab an image from the camera. As MICAM was only suitable for USB camera's that use Direct Show to present a live view image to the user, I had to think of a different method to use my Canon camera. In 2013 I bought a Canon EOS 600D and fitted that on my microscope. As many programs that were available at low cost were not able to do what I wanted I wrote the program MICAM to assist me with taking photographs. In 2007 I bought a microscope and started with microphotography using my microscope and a web cam.

Short German manual for version 2.4 available Anleiting in Deutsch (by Rolf Graf).

Hold down the ALT-key during right mouse click to select the area in µm (or other units)

With the right mouse button you can select the crop area (in pixels) directly.

Use key K to toggle the colour to white (pressing key K again changes the colour to black again)

When selecting an area the label showing the dimensions by default is black.

Use key E (shortcut) to show the Exposure correction window.

Use key T (shortcut) to show the scale and label settings window.

Better indication when measurement list is active.

Select Circle/Oval by clicking button again.

Select arrow/Dot by clicking the button again.

Permanent is permanent and so cannot be undone! Shortcut ( key I, capital i)

Make current image permanent, so on resizing the info in the image is not lost.

Normally you cannot place the scale lower than the selected margin.

Override default margin limit by pressing CTRL when moving the scale.

If you do not want to use the default margin you can easily select your own margin Margin in pixels or percentage, depends on settings in Preferences.

Indication of scale position (when moving the scale).

When printing them with the same height, the scales and texts look the same on all images I use this to enter a scale in images with different heights.

Scale bar thickness, margin and font height now can be set in percentage of image height as well.

Updated manual explaining the new features.

Rolf Graf provided a summary of the manual in German: In the October 2020 version those bugs were cured.

Updated version 3.02 of MICAM availableĪfter the release of MICAM 3.0 several users reported bugs that appear under certain circumstances or certain camera's.

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