What good is having a digital camera on an electron microscope?
A. Although you will probably still want to use film to obtain publication quality prints, the digital cameras can be very useful. They allow you to focus at relatively low illumination intensities, minimizing the damage to your specimen. They allow you to manipulate the contrast, which can be useful for detecting small gold particles in immunogold labeled specimens. They can reduce the time and tediousness of surveying and recording results from large experiments where not every image needs to be publication quality. The images are also of sufficient quality for many morphometric functions such as particle counting and measurement of feature dimensions.
