A quick guide to capturing images with μManager

This guide is intended to help you quickly start imaging with μManager on a basic wide-field microscope/camera system. µManager can also be used to control devices on time-lapse microscope systems, but that is too advanced to be dealt with here. If you're interested in finding out how to configure hardware in µManager there is a comprehensive user guide on the µManager website.

Make sure the camera is on before opening µManager. If you're using Windows then double-click the µManager icon on the desktop. If you're using a Mac then you can click its icon in the dock. Note that the icon may say 'ImageJ' when you hover the mouse over it - that's normal.

Select the correct configuration from the drop-down menu that appears with the splash screen.