Tools Automated micropaleontology

Automated microscopes

• 1 x DMRBE LEICA (commissioned in 1997)
• 4 x DM6000 LEICA (in operation in 2010, 2011, 2014 and 2021)
• 1 x DMi8 LEICA (automatic inverted microscope, for work with cultures, start-up 2017)

Automated stereomicroscope :

• 1 x MZ16A LEICA+Platinum Leica IsoPro (commissioned in 2014)
• 1 x MZ16A LEICA+Platinum Leica IsoPro (commissioned in 2014)

Automatic sorting machine foram MISO

• 1 x ATG / CEREGE (soon 2)

Cameras Peltier-cooled 4Mpixel 14 and 16 bit (Square Pixelss of 6µm side):

• 2 x SPOTFLEX Black & White (2010, 2011) 
• 1 x SPOTFLEX Colour (2014)
• 3 x HAMAMATSU Orca Flash 4 (2017, 2021, 2022)

High spatial resolution cameras for photography

• FLIR B&W
• FLIR colour
• SMARTEK B&W

Computer equipment 

• 1 DELL 26-core computing blade
• 1 servers 
• 3 DELL computers (30 to 40 cores) 
• 10 Optical and camera control computers

Optical filters (CHROMA)

• 5 x 561 nm filters
• 5 filters 635 nm
• 4 x 460 nm filters
• 12 Bendfords filters (circular polarisation)
• Numerous other optical filters (linear polarizers, 700nm, 435 nm...)