Spot 5.2 software from Spot Imaging Solutions, Sterling Heights, Mich, provides ongoing support for Spot cameras while expanding their capabilities with new features and enhanced functionalities. The system offers support for Mac OS X Mavericks (10.9) and Windows 8, and a new microscopy-optimized, auto-brightness function. A new live-image overlay module is also available for e-physician applications. The company has updated the auto-exposure image types and ICC profiles for new cameras, and added macro and custom dialogue functions. Spot advanced software provides tools for fluorescence imaging and database archival, and supports modules for intensity display scaling, extended depth of focus processing, and peripheral device control. Image analysis tasks like automated counting, deconvolution, thresholding, and multidimensional imaging can also be accomplished with a Spot camera using MetaMorph NX software and the Spot camera driver. For more information, visit Spot Imaging Solutions.