This pamphlets below help describe the imaging capabilities offered by the Macropod Pro imaging system. The “Macropod” can be used to photograph everything from outcrops to mineral and/or fossil specimens (even thin sections), almost to the level of a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The unique thing is that the host company, Macroscopic Solutions, provides an all-in-one portable professional imaging set up (backpack, camera, numerous lenses, stands, image stacking software, etc…) to conduct field- and lab-based professional 3D imagery, making it a fantastic tool for education and outreach.

To get a sense of what I’m talking about, you can look at the following links included below:

Colleagues that have already purchased one of the Macropods for his or her department are heavily used by faculty and graduate students for everything from research-based analysis to classwork on cores, specimens, and outcrop-based images.

The CUIC at Cornell University recently published a post about how effective their system has been (see number 2)

Early Stage Mouse Embryo (Blood Cells) Shot at 5x with Fluorescence

20x Pine Needles imaged using Fluorescence

10x Pine Needles imaged using Fluorescence