Motic Microscope Camera SFC File Format

The Motic Microscope Camera software stores all images in their proprietary file format with extension ".sfc". Tthis simply contains binary pixel data. It can be viewed with Matlab with the following commands:

fid=fopen('Capture_4.sfc','r');

% read width and height information

fseek(fid,11,'bof');
Width  = fread(fid,1,'uint32=>uint32')
Height = fread(fid,1,'uint32=>uint32')

% read the image

fseek(fid,273,'bof');
rgb=fread(fid,Width*Height*3,'uint8=>uint8');
fclose(fid);

% reshape 1xN vector to Width x Height x 3 (RGB) vector

rgb=permute(reshape(rgb,3,Width,Height),[3,2,1]);
image(rgb);

Note that this code was only tested with images directly saved after capture without any edits.