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K3M The Microscope Cameras

K3M The Microscope Cameras

For Life Science and Industry Imaging Applications and Analysis

The K3M monochrome cameras are your solutions for fast and reliable analytical tasks typically done for life science, industrial, and clinical applications. These cameras empower you to image a vast range of challenging samples with color-brightfield and fluorescence microscopy. Examples include fluorescently labeled and stained tissues and cells, particles for cleanliness analysis, steel, and forensic evidence.

Leica K3M

Leica K3M

Customized for your specific needs with Microscope Cameras

The K3C color CMOS camera provides a well-balanced feature set with high frame rates, very good dynamic range, and excellent color reproduction. It delivers 12-bit/channel RGB quantifiable images. With the K3C & K3M microscope camera you can get an imaging system that is customized for your specific needs. You can scan and stitch images of large format samples in half the time compared to previous generation cameras. The K3C & K3M cameras are excellent, easy-to-use and set-up, low-noise devices. Either color camera K3C or monochrome camera K3M can act as a workhorse for your laboratory or site.

Benefits for Life Science and Industry Imaging Applications and Analysis

Fast and reliable analysis

The K3C color and K3M monochrome cameras offer very good dynamic range enabling you to capture quantifiable images for downstream analysis for many challenging samples. Whether you image material samples which are highly reflective or light-absorbing surfaces or fluorescent samples with regions of very bright and weak signals, the K3C color and K3M monochrome cameras are up to the challenge.

Excellent true color reproduction

The 12-bit excellent color reproduction ability of the color K3C camera enables you to capture large color depth and extract more detail from your samples.

Samples and specimens often contain subtle color variations which allow you to distinguish between different features and regions of interest and work out what is really going on in transitions zones between various parts of the specimen. 

Improve your throughput

Samples of interest can be large and need to be imaged in high resolution, requiring a system capable of area scanning and image stitching.

The large sensor and high frame rates make the K3C color and K3M monochrome cameras ideal for area scanning applications when combined with the LAS X Navigator and Steel/Cleanliness Expert software modules.

Camera Details
Sensor Type CMOS
Snesor Size 8.92 mm
Sensor Format 3072 px x 2048 px
Sensor Cooling Passive
Shutter Mode Rolling, Global reset
Exposure Range 1 ms - 10 s
Maximum Frames Per Second 15 fps (software triggered), 21 fps (hardware triggered – available in K3M only)
Pixel Dimensions 2.4 μm x 2.4 μm
Mechanical Interface C-mount
Binning Options 2x2
Optical Filter 650 nm IR cut off filter
Operating System Windows with LAS X application
Power Consumption 3 W
Operating Tempreature 5 °C - 40 °C
Maximum Full Well Capacity 14000 e-
Dynamic Range up to 72 dB
Dark Noise 2.8 e- (median)
Data interface USB 3
Triggering M8/8-Pin connector (only K3M is triggerable)
Bit depth / Colour depth 3 x 12 -bit = 32-bit RGB, 12-bit mono