Microscope vendors have gone to incredible efforts to obfuscate their file formats. Some inventing custom compression codecs. I worked for a company that spent enormous amounts of time reverse engineering these protocols.
I'm probably not being cynical enough here, but this doesn't necessarily imply a desire for obfuscation.
Codecs are hard, I doubt there are many which are better than the well known ones.
That said, it's certainly worthwhile benchmarking (de)compression speed and the compression ratio to see if the difference is actually meaningful enough to be worthwhile.
https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/openslide-users/2012-...
Here's hoping this eventually gets fixed in a similar sort of way the .mkv format "fixed" video.
I am not sure if the video actually says the name of the microscope, though, because he was mad at them for not testing it at high altitude where he lived at the time.
How much does one unit cost?
Mochii starts at $48K for the imaging only unit. The spectroscopy-enabled version, which provides full featured x-ray spectroscopy and spectrum imaging, is $65K.
It has an integrated metal coater option available for $5,000, and we offer a variety of optical cartridge exchange programs that can fit your consumables utilization and pricing needs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_microscope#Alternative...
I was hoping for an easy entry:
https://www.hackster.io/michalin70/3d-printed-laser-scanning...