More versatile components for Video Capture and Editing, as assembled into our Macintosh G4-based Configuration 3.


Combined cost was approximately US$32,000. Optical and camera components are the same as Configuration 2 for PC. All brand names mentioned are registered trademarks of the respective companies listed here.

I. Optics

  1. Olympus BX51 microscope with transmitted light arm, lamphouse, 8-position universal condenser, mechanical stage, 7-position DIC nosepiece and trinocular observation tube with 10x eyepieces.
  2. Objectives: Plan Semi-Apochromat 4x, 10x, 20x; Plan Apochromat 60x/NA1.40; Plan 100x/NA1.0 I-IR
  3. DIC optics: HR prism for 20x and 60x objectives; HC prism for 100x objective; Analyzer; Gout slider adapter; Transmitted DIC prism slider
  4. Drawing attachment.
  5. Simple magnification changer 1x/1.25x/1.6x/2x.
  6. 1x video adapter + C-mount camera adapter
  7. 0.35x CCD camera adapter (interchanges with item 6 above)


II. Video camera and monitor

  1. Olympus OLY-200 1/3" single CCD color video camera
  2. Sony S-M035 14" RGB monitor


III. Computer hardware

  1. Macintosh PowerPC G4 with single 867 MHz processor, 1.12 Gb PC-133 SDRAM, keyboard and wireless mouse
  2. Two internal Maxtor 60 Gb ATA/100 7200 rpm hard drives
  3. Generic 12x8x32x CD-RW
  4. Maxtor RTMac video capture card
  5. Intel 10/100 ethernet card
  6. Mitsubishi Diamond Plus 73 17" monitor


IV. Computer software

  1. MacOS 9.2.2
  2. Apple Final Cut Pro 2.0 (bundled with RTMac, bundle not available for FCP 3.0)
  3. Apple QuickTime Player 5.0.2
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