Multiple Cameras

navigate supports multi-camera acquisition across shared or independent microscope definitions.

Enabling Multi-Camera Operation

Before launching navigate, confirm both cameras are recognized by the host computer and receive the same external trigger from the data acquisition card. See Cameras for hardware setup details.

  1. Open Microscope Configuration ‣ Configure Microscope.

    Menu path to open Configure Microscope.

    A popup appears with available microscope configurations and hardware details.

    Configure Microscope popup listing microscope configurations.

    Each microscope entry has three configurable options.

    Per-microscope options shown in Configure Microscope.
  2. Set Primary Microscope and Additional Microscope, then click Confirm.

    Primary and additional microscope selections.
  3. Choose acquisition mode and click Acquire as usual. A popup window appears with images from the additional camera.

    Additional camera view popup during acquisition.

Disabling Multi-Camera Operation

When finished with multi-camera acquisition, reset to single-camera mode.

  1. Open Microscope Configuration ‣ Configure Microscope.

    Menu path to open Configure Microscope.
  2. Set Primary Microscope, then set Additional Microscope to Not Use. Click Confirm.

    Configure Microscope popup with Additional Microscope set to Not Use.