Color vs. Black and White: How to Choose a FlowCam Camera

FlowCam 8100 offers both color and black-and-white cameras—and the choice affects your data more than you might expect. This technical note breaks down the spatial-resolution-versus-color trade-off so you can match the configuration to your application.

What's inside:

• The core trade-off: why color cameras gain particle-type differentiation but give up spatial resolution
• How color imaging artifacts at particle edges can affect sizing accuracy, especially near the lower size limit
• When color wins: HAB monitoring, drinking water, and phytoplankton research with intrinsically colored particles
• When black and white wins: biotherapeutic, food & beverage, and materials work where sizing accuracy is critical
• A decision framework based on what matters most for your samples—particle ID or size precision
• How to think through the ambiguous cases where either configuration could be justified

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