What Camera Do You Have on Your Scope?

[Napoleon1801]

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I'd like to poll everyone and see what camera setup you have on your scope? Does your practice include pictures on your path report? Is it user-friendly and efficient in your workflow?

Our group is interested in starting to add pictures to our reports, but we have a number of non-interfaced cameras that we use for tumor board pictures. Transferring all the images via CF card is also a pain. We've been catching flack for not having pretty reports like the big reference labs.

Any thoughts are appreciated! 🙂

 

[Euchromatin]

We have one fairly mediocre/older camera on our multiheaded conference room scope. We use it to take microscopic photos for tumor boards that are not held in our department. I don't believe anyone has a camera on their personal scope and we certainly do not put photos in our reports at this time. I think the only way it would be even remotely practical/efficient would be to get a camera for each pathologist, so they could take a representative photo of each case while looking at the slides for primary diagnosis, upload it into the LIS and then insert it into the report (not even sure if/how that would work with our current software, although hopefully/presumably one could program some macros to do parts of the process automatically). Even that would be a huge change and I can't see how it could possibly help clinicians/surgeons in any meaningful way other than making the reports look a bit flashier. I'm sorry you guys are being pressured to do so.

 

[bauber]

I have been using this one with my iphone for a few years now - LabCam - Microscope Adapter for iPhone

It's overpriced for what it is but it works great and is portable.

 

[Napoleon1801]

I have been using this one with my iphone for a few years now - LabCam - Microscope Adapter for iPhone

It's overpriced for what it is but it works great and is portable.

Wow, that easily beats the sad 3.5MP camera I have now.

 

[Poeppel]

I have been using this one with my iphone for a few years now -

It's overpriced for what it is but it works great and is portable.

I agree, these pictures look great. Do you use the standard version, or Pro?

 

[kchan99]

Any recs for Samsung?

 

[pathslides]

I have the camera that goes with my Nikon scope. Pretty sure it was expensive but it is superb and has good quality. But I must say. That iPhone adapter one is quite nice for only 300 bucks.

 

[sohsie]

I have an Olympus bx45 with an infinity 2 camera

INFINITY2-2 USB 2.0 Microscope Camera with CCD Sensor Lumenera

Photos are saved on my desktop. I can load them into the LIS but if I have a lot of photos, one of the transcriptionist will do it for me.

I have one physician who wants pictures on every report. Otherwise, I usually take one for malignancies (except for skin BCC and skin SCC).

Pictures on reports are time consuming and there is no extra reimbursement for it. I used to work on a lab where they pushed pictures to get clients. It was really tiring and annoying. After explaining a bunch of times that I can do a lot more work if I'm not wasting time taking pictures, they relented and got most of the clients to forgo them.

 

[bauber]

I agree, these pictures look great. Do you use the standard version, or Pro?

I have the standard version.

 

[univlad]

Nice quality. How does it do with low power objectives like 2x? How much of the field of view does it capture? Often for tumor board, the best photos are 2x to show things like how far a tumor invades, etc.

I have been using this one with my iphone for a few years now - LabCam - Microscope Adapter for iPhone

It's overpriced for what it is but it works great and is portable.

 

[bauber]

I took this at 2x.I always pinch to zoom in to get rid of the black ring from the ocular (see top left). Also this photo isn't edited like the others.

 

[univlad]

Looks nice! I'm considering getting one!

 

[Autopsy101]

I'm all for getting a great camera - I have an olympus DP25. However, considering the extra time and possible legal issues with putting images in reports - personally not a fan.

http://www.jaad.org/article/S0190-9622(05)03013-6/pdf

 

[Napoleon1801]

I wish we had something to trigger a camera capture easily (ie. a foot pedal) with autofocus and white balance. Even with a nice camera, it seems like it would be a pain to add individual images to the chart. Anyone know how the big corporate labs are doing this?

 

[SPQR]

My setup: SPOT camera on Nikon Eclipse Ci, which is connected to PC. I take pictures using PC software and save images in our network (4 mega pixels images)
When it is time to signout, its very simple (drag and drop) with PowerPath

 

[ZacM]

I use USB 3.0 camera Point Gray Flea3 so these are the photos I've got