<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hello Michael,</div><div><br></div><div>We did use OBIS for a few months due to a defective CUBE, and it worked very well… But at the time we did not have it integrated into the plugin, so unless the driver can be merged into it then I cannot make any statement for or against getting one. Otherwise when this merger is accomplished I would say go for it, with the caveat of getting a clean up filter (eGFP excitation of 490/10 or 490/15 ±400 USD/GBP/EUR) along side it.</div><div><br></div><div>My $0.02,</div><div>Pete</div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Jun 11, 2014, at 7:37 PM, Kevin W Eliceiri wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Michael,<br><br>I know our colleagues in Germany have used both and been pleased. Only issue was need cleanup filter in both cases. There are now drivers on github for micromanger control of obis<br>but we have not to my knowledge tried this. See <a href="https://github.com/hc5/CoherentOBIS">https://github.com/hc5/CoherentOBIS</a><br><br><br>best<br>kevin<br><br>On 06/11/14, Michael Redd wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Coherent is replacing their Cube laser with their Obis line. The Obis is USB connectable and is much cheaper than the Cube. Has anyone used an Obis laser with OpenSPIM or micromanager?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Cheers<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">mike<br></blockquote><br>--<br>Kevin W. Eliceiri<br>Director, Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI)<br>Departments Cell and Molecular Biology and Biomedical Engineering<br>Affiliate Principal Investigator, Morgridge Institute for Research (MIR)<br>Room 271 Animal Sciences, 1675 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706<br>Phone: 608-263-6288<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OpenSPIM mailing list<br><a href="mailto:OpenSPIM@openspim.org">OpenSPIM@openspim.org</a><br>http://openspim.org/mailman/listinfo/openspim<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>