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Multiple Cameras
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**navigate** is crafted for extensibility to enable the virtualization of multiple microscopes using the same and/or
different devices, including cameras.

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Enabling Multi-Camera Operation
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**navigate** gives users the flexibility to capture images with multiple cameras. Prior
to launching **navigate**, it is important that both cameras are functioning with
the computer, and that they share the same external trigger signal from the data acquisition
card. See :ref:`camera_configuration` for more information.


#. Select and click menu :menuselection:`Microscope Configuration --> Configure Microscope`.


   .. image:: images/multi_cams_1.png

   There will be a pop-up window displaying a list of all available microscopes with its hardware details.

   .. image:: images/multi_cams_2.png
     :width: 400px
     :align: center

   There are three settings options for each microscope.

   .. image:: images/multi_cams_3.png
     :width: 400px
     :align: center



#. Set `Primary Microscope` and `Additional Microscope`, then click `Confirm`.


   .. image:: images/multi_cams_4.png
     :width: 400px
     :align: center


#. Then set `Acquisition mode` and click `Acquiring` the same way as using one camera.
   There will be a pop-up window displaying images obtained from an additional camera.

   .. image:: images/multi_cams_5.png



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Disabling Multi-Camera Operation
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Once you're finished acquiring images with multiple cameras, remember to reset to the single-camera mode.

#. Select and click menu :menuselection:`Microscope Configuration --> Configure Microscope`.


   .. image:: images/multi_cams_1.png


#. Set `Primary Microscope` and set the "additional microscope" as `Not Use`. Then click `Confirm`.

   .. image:: images/multi_cams_9.png
     :width: 400px
     :align: center