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WARNING: Do not connect your camera to a PC before installing the drivers. If you do and the “Add New
Hardware Wizard” appears, please select the Cancel button.
Make sure your Windows user account has administrator privileges. Double click on the setupApogeeDriver for your
operating system type, 32 or 64 bit. The following example shows Windows 7:
1. Follow the installation wizard instructions for your version of Windows and click Finish once complete.
2. Upon successful driver installation connect your Filter Wheel to the PC. Watch the message balloon in the lower right
corner state the OS, search for and successfully install the drivers for the Apogee USB camera and the filter wheel.
3. The drivers for your USB Filter Wheel are now installed on your PC.
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The Apogee Filter Wheel is easily used with the MaxIm DL image capture and processing software, developed by
Diffraction Limited. If you will be using the MaxIm DL software, we recommend that you install it prior to setting up your
Filter Wheel. If you already have MaxIm DL installed make sure that it is the latest update. Please see the MaxIm DL
documentation for specific instructions related to installation of this software.
Apogee Filter Wheels are supported by MaxIm DL Ver. 4.61 and higher.
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MaxIm DL is a powerful camera control and image processing package. The MaxIm DL software package has an
extensive user’s guide, which provides detailed instructions for setting up the software and getting started. This section
covers a quick reference of how to connect to your Filter Wheel using MaxIm DL.
The information in this section contains specific MaxIm DL screenshots. These screenshots were accurate as of MaxIm
v5.06, appearance of other versions may vary.
To begin, launch the MaxIm DL camera control window. Under “Camera 1” click the
Setup Filter
button.
