ZEN 2012 - Service Pack 2 (Blue Edition) - Readme - : Acquisition - Experiment Designer
ZEN 2012 - Service Pack 2 (Blue Edition) - Readme - : Acquisition - Experiment Designer
– Readme –
© Copyright 1999 – 2013 by Carl Zeiss
This document provides important information about known bugs in ZEN 2012 SP2 (blue edition)
and describes workarounds if available.
Acquisition – Focussing
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The image update is very poor when running a software autofocus.
66088
The Definite Focus can become inoperable under the following condition: If used for a Time Series
experiment and the interval between time points is very short (e.g. smaller than 1 sec) enabling the
periodic stabilization of the Definite Focus (e.g. with an interval of 10 sec) can cause problems.
Workaround: using the focus configuration in the Time Series Loop on the Focus Strategy tool
window, e.g. ‘Run Definite Focus every 10th Time Point’.
Acquisition – Timelapse
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The Axiocam 605 color/mono camera can deliver imaging date with a speed of 240 MBytes/s.
Analysis – Analysis
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Contours which are drawn in the Interactive Segmentation step of the Image Analysis Wizard may get
lost when the drawing of the contour is finished with double-click with the right mouse button.
Analysis – Colocalization
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Colocalisation does not work with multiscene images.
65744
Colocalization cannot be done directly on images with multiple scenes. The Coloc view is not
available.
Workaround: use the Split scenes function (Processing/Utilities/Split scenes) to create one file per
scene which makes the Coloc view available.
Analysis – Physiology
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Relates to the current feature set. MeanROI view can not yet deal with multi-block experiements.
Workaround is a separation of the block and individual analysis.
65790
The streaming mode cameras prevents the use of certain functions in ZEN: for example Physiology
experiements are incompatible with streaming mode as this speacial acquisition mode does not
allow the appropraite measurements to be made. Currently no warning message or infomation text
is displayed to this effect.
Axioscan
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If the user opens the Scan Profile Wizard the software will populate the dropdown selections for the
the Tray and slides and match this with the current content of the magazine. If you insert or remove
trays while the wizard is open these changes will not be updated in the dropdown menus for the
Devices – ApoTome
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Some of the histogram tools in the ApoTome calibration wizards are not visible when in the ZEN Light
style.
Workaound: switching to Dark style
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When crerating focus calibrations for the Axiozoom.Z1 for the 4 click stop positions the status in the
wizard still states not calibrated. The calibrations are, however, correctly done and all experiments
can be performed.
65835
When in step 5 of the phase calibration wizard the buttons for ‘Full-Scan’ and ‘Local-Scan’ appear to
be inactive.
Workaround: please click into the buttons to make them active.
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The first time after ZEN installation when the focus or phase calibration wizards are started the live
image performance is very poor.
Solution: restarting all components (PC, microscope, ApoTome etc.) after which the live image
performance will be as expected.
Devices – Cameras
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In some rare cases hot pixels are not completely removed by the Black Reference correction.
These pixels show a nonlinear behaviour and can not be removed with the available algorithm.
However they can be removed effectively by the Noise Filter function in the camera menue section
Postprocessing.
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The Photometrics Myo camera cannot be used in ZEN when running from internal USB 3.0 ports.
Workaround: using a separate USB card such as Exys EX 11094. Please follow the manufacturers
recommendations.
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With the Photometrics Myo camera when running from internal USB ports the following problem
exists: SNAP cannot be used while running the Live image.
Workaround: This is due to a bandwidth problem, using a separate USB card such as Exys EX 11094
might solve this problem.
61615
For the Axiocam 105 color, performing AutoFocus while Spot Meter is activated takes more time
than performing AutoFocus with Spot Meter deactivated. Workaround: Use the following Software
Autofocus settings: Quality = Basic; Range Coverage = Smart.
63910
On PC's where an interface board for an older model AxioCam was installed once but has been
removed ZEN starts with an error message trying to initialize the non existing camera.
Solution: manually removing ‘mcam64.dll’ from C:/Windows/System32.
65298
For the AxioCam ERc 5s, when an ROI is set, it assumes that the Image Orientation is always set to
Original. If the user sets an Image Orientation besides Original, this can result in the ROI portraying
an undesired region.
65300
Shading Correction is not correct when the Axiocam 105 color is set to 2x2 or 4x4 Binning.
General – XY Scaling
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Different Magnifications within a heterogeneous experiment are not updated in the file data.
OAD – Scripting-IDE
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In some rare cases an error appears if macro has empty lines in combination with for-loops or the if-
statement. Usually closing and opening the macro editor repairs the error.
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Sometimes the macro editor shows the error message with a wrong line number, e.g. TypeError:
unsupported operand type(s) for /: 'str' and 'int' in line -1
62919
Sometimes the Debugging Pointer stops or remains in for loops with more than one nesting level.
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In some rare cases an error appears if macro has empty lines in combination with for-loops or the if-
statement. Usually closing and opening the macro editor repairs the error.
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Calling a macro via toolbar button changes the file in the macro editor.
Reporting – Reports
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Reporting - Report Preview - When several images are dropped into the report and the template is
changed, only the active image stays in the report.
Views
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Copying and Pasting display settings from and to multiblock images fails for all subsequent blocks.
Workaround: manually defining and applying the desired display settings to a multiblock image.
65229
When playing through a time series or a z-stack while in Split view the image updated sometimes
lags. As a result the image display shows brief gray flickering in between image updated. This
behavior improves once each image in the series has been shown once.
Views – 2D View
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The ruler in the image display (Tools/Options/Documents/Show Rulers) shows pixel values instead of
scaled units during acquisition. After the experiment is finished, the correct units are shown.
65734
When switching to OrthoView during acquisition of a z-stack, the view is switched back to 2D view
upon experiment completion.
65735
Switching between image documents resets the layout of the view options tabs in the center screen
area, involuntarily discarding user changes to the tab layout.
66004
Cameras which can acquire images faster than the live image rate possible sometimes show artifacts
in the Live image when looking at fast moving objects. This does not affect the acquisition
performance.
Views – 3D View
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3D View: Rendering of Time series is not possible with 3D textures
65545
Under certain circumstances the cutting planes cannot be moved by mouse.
Workaround: moving the planes by slider.
65549
Intersections of two or more clipping planes aren't shown as lines.
Workaround: choosing the Colored option in Clipping view options tab.
65550
Inner surface lighting sometimes does not work when the Color Inner Surfaces option is activated.
No Workaround available
65662
The 3D rendering window is controlled via the mousewheel even if another program is active in the
foreground.
Workaround: switching to 2D View before operating the mousewheel in the other program.
66008
Switching Bachground-color is not longer possible in Maximum-3D-View when in GPU rendering
mode. Even selecting a white background in any other view-mode and selecting Maximum-Mode
afterwards will make the backgroundcolor switch to black.