[OpenSPIM] Camera for OpenSPIM

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi Luke,

On Mon, 18 Nov 2013, Luke Stuyvenberg wrote:

> Could you elaborate on the anticipated problems with DCAM on i.e.
> Windows 7? I'm not familiar with all the issues -- Hamamatsu's website
> claims the DCAM-API should work on Windows 7 provided certain
> prerequisites
> (see http://dcam-api.com/assets/pdfs/DCAM-API-for-Windows-20131008-Compatibility-Note.pdf for
> details) are satisfied.

I think Hartmann refers to http://openspim.org/Requirements where we say
that XP is required. IIRC Pete Pitrone tested Windows 7 (inadvertently,
because he got a Windows 7 machine and did not specify that he wanted
Windows XP instead) back in 2011 and after a week of interactive
debugging, we figured out that the DCAM driver back then was not
cooperating nicely with Micro-Manager's DeviceAdapter.

I am pretty certain that those issues have been resolved in the meantime,
though, by a newer DCAM version. In other words, you should be fine if you
download and install the current DCAM.

It would be nice if somebody who does have a Windows 7 machine and an Orce
confirmed that this combination works now, so we can remove that
limitation from the Wiki page.

Anyone?

Ciao,
Johannes