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Hi <<First Name>>,
Our monthly newsletter of news, tips, and advice about making images with incredible detail, all in focus, all the time.
Please forward to a friend or colleague who is interested in scalable resolution macro imaging, and use the social links at the bottom of the Newsletter.
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Picture of the Month.
This month an example of what our template system can do. This image is from a microscope slide that we imaged using our template system (see below) during visit to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. It is a histology subject that is 6407 x 6862 pixels, at 32,250 pixels per inch. Printed out it would be about 21 x 22 inches; this from a specimen that is just a few millimeters in size.
Don't forget to zoom and pan around the image - explore!
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DON'T FORGET!
Those of you in the Bay Area, we are hosting an open day for our friends and family on Sunday June 7th (note the date change!). We'll be opening up our workshop, studio and offices, so come and join us for BBQ, drinks, bouncy castle for the kids (and maybe Graham). We'll also run our cnc mill to make a self-assembly velociraptor for kids - of all ages - to take away.....
If you can, please RSVP here so we can plan food and things! All festivities are at our Intergalactic HQ, 455 Technology Way, Napa, CA 94558. Or drop by!
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May was a very busy month. Gene and Graham did an 'East Coast Tour', visiting existing customers as well as the Smithsonian Institution, American Museum of Natural History in New York and an iDigBio workshop at Cornell University.
We carried a complete system with us, covered almost 1300 miles, and spoke to dozens of potential clients - exhausting but very worth while.
We were back just a week and then Maker Faire! Here is the booth and the crowds we had coming by:
Take a look at the time-lapse.
You can see the print (about 25' tall) of ONE panel of the Terabite image, that is getting close to completion. Gene and our good colleague Rich Gibson have been developing new techniques to put the image together. We currently have half of the 63 panels stitched together and showed a preview of that at Maker Faire. If we printed the whole Terabite it would be just over half a mile long and three stories high.
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See More - Much More - of Our Images.
We have debated for a long time if we should make our images available as BIG prints and license them to others. Well, we have stopped debating; prints will be available at almost any size - we shipped one - the Eagle Feather - 105" in length to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History this month. It looks just fabulous. Cost for prints is approximately $10 per square foot, so you can have - or that kid in your life can have - a giant print of a bug, or a leaf, or almost anything else in our image collection. My great niece got the first Congo Beetle print, almost four feet long.
We'll also license them on a use by use basis for exhibit material, advertising, etc. on a case by case basis. If you are interested, please call us.
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We are Growing:
As our business grows, we are always on the lookout for great people who could add tto GIGAmacro and fit in well with a small, entrepreneurial business.
In particular we are looking for an experienced inside sales person with a background in high-value product sales. We'd prefer Napa area, (we thing face to face is important in a small business), but it could be remote if we find an exceptional person.
We are also looking for full / part-time / contact Javascript, NodeJS and HTML experienced folks for either project based development or for ongoing work.
Finally, if you know someone who loves to tinker with robotics, electronics, cnc machining and photography / imaging - or any of these - we are looking for help in the shop for building systems and product development.
Send them our way please.
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Templates Mean Productivity.
Our template system is an option for the Magnify2. It adds an acrylic deck that provides pin registration for a number of components:
* Templates that are specific to your workflow (microscope slides in the photo below)
* Diffusion panel if the (optional) backlash is used
* Polarizing filter for backlighting if required
The whole template system is removable (it locates on tabs that are a simple addition to the Magnify2). The template shown above is for standard microscope slides, and four of these templates can be placed on the register pins. That gives 72 (4 x 18) slides in each job. Once setup the system runs autonomously to image all 72 slides.
We produce templates for many different workflows and specimens: 35mm slides, geology thin samples, 6cm x 6cm slides, entomology specimen holders, pretty much anything that you can think of! Get thinking......
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Our Social Media stuff.....
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