[3dem] Manual data collection with Falcon camera

[Matthias Wolf]

Hi Chuang,

Consider Greg McMullan's Falcon hack - it works brilliantly and you simply end up with an 18 frames/sec MRC image stack on a dedicated drive whenever you take an exposure. Google for Chen Xu's Falcon hack tutorial with instructions how to build the capture PC.

Otherwise I second Bob's recommendation of leginon for targeting individual filaments. We use it together with Greg's Falcon hack.

Regards,

   Matthias

On Jun 3, 2015, at 22:31, Liu, Chuang <chl165 at pitt.edu<mailto:chl165 at pitt.edu>> wrote:



 Dear all


Our microscope is equipped with camera Falcon and automatic data collection software EPU. As everybody knows, data collection for single particle is much easier than before with such settings.  But for our filament project, EPU haven't give us such overwhelming effect as in single particle field.  In our situation,the filament's concentration is kept low to avoid overlapping,so the chance to shoot a good tube is not high when automatically collecting data hole by hole.  We still prefer manual data collection by taking an image at low mag(4300x) and moving stage to the target area for higher mag imaging.And here it seems that this method is more efficient.

The problem now is that we can't use Falcon's movie mode while not running EPU.  For us, it seems that movie mode is only controlled by the software EPU. So does anybody have experiences on such situation that either collecting data manually with Falcon's movie mode or collecting data while running EPU but under supervision?

Thanks a lot.
Regards

Chuang


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