Solve Your Inspection and QC Needs with Portable Digital Microscopes: Perform Fast, High-quality Quantitative 2D and 3D Surface Measurements

October 14, 2010, Bannockburn, IL (Marketwire) –
Improve the quality and increase the yield of manufactured products with the innovative, reliable, and fast digital technology of Leica Microsystems’ DVM digital microscopes. Digital technologies have dramatically improved industrial quality control. Industries such as microelectronics and medical device manufacturing place stringent requirements on macroscopic and microscopic imaging and image processing.

With the Leica DVM line, the microscopic image is displayed directly on a high-resolution monitor. The streamlined zoom optics reach extremely difficult-to-access surfaces for nondestructive inspection of even the largest stationary parts, which could only be examined with great effort using traditional microscope techniques.
Leica Microsystems’ DVM digital microscopes

Leica Microsystems’ digital microscopes not only feature outstanding, high-quality optics, they also offer a wide variety of quantitative analysis options – whether 2D analysis or advanced 3D surface measurements.

Leica DVM5000 – the portable all-in-one-system
For quality control, a sample is usually transferred to the microscope for inspection and analysis. However, some products cannot be transported and do not allow a sample to be taken for analysis; only nondestructive inspection is possible. The Leica DVM5000 is specifically designed for such situations. The digital microscope, including the optics, monitor, and computer, converts into a compact, portable system with just a few adjustments and can then be carried to the sample.

Leica DVM3000 – flexible in every respect
The Leica DVM3000 includes zoom optics with encoded magnifications, high-performance digital camera, an integrated metal halide lamp, and standard interfaces for computer and monitor to enable all sample-related data to be sent to the computer for subsequent evaluation. Its open, modular design makes the Leica DVM3000 a compact, versatile digital microscope for a wide variety of applications.

Leica DVM2000 – digital microscope focused on the basics
The Leica DVM2000 entry-level, modular system is comprised of zoom optics, digital camera, and software and is based on standard components. The system provides many options from a comprehensive range of products and accessories to configure the ideal digital solution.

Optimized digital imaging
The 2.11-megapixel digital camera is perfectly matched to the microscope’s optics. Combined with high-resolution optical zoom, this highly sensitive CCD camera generates digital images with the best possible information yield without enlarging data volume and file size of individual images. Leica Microsystems has long used 16-bit individual color detection to utilize the entire dynamic image range. The HDR-Module takes images of samples with extreme differences of brightness, while the SmartTiling™ Module combines many single images into one large mosaic with the help of a manual x/y-stage. This is only a brief description of the versatile, intelligent software of the Leica DVM line. For the full story, visit  www.leica-microsystems.com/products/digital-microscopes

About Leica Microsystems
Leica Microsystems is a leading global designer and producer of innovative, high-tech, precision optical systems for the analysis of microstructures. It is one of the market leaders in each of its business areas: Microscopy, Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy with corresponding Imaging Systems, Specimen Preparation, and Medical Equipment. The company manufactures a broad range of products for numerous applications requiring microscopic imaging, measurement, and analysis. It also offers system solutions for life science including biotechnology and medicine, research and development of raw materials, and industrial quality assurance. The company is represented in over 100 countries with 14 manufacturing facilities in 11 countries, sales and service organizations in 19 countries and an international network of dealers. The international management is headquartered in Wetzlar, Germany, and its corporate website is  www.leica-microsystems.com