Re: Digital Reflex on microscope

From: Aaron (nghy_at_comcast.net)
Date: 06/24/04 

Date: 24 Jun 2004 12:45:12 -0500

Hello

I never meant to say that using a D100 was impossible.. It is just
much more involved than working with cameras like the coolpix models
which I listed.

Since you have worked out the details, we would all appreciate seeing
some of your results and how you solved the problems of joining the
camera to the microscope and geting the images in focus and with the
correct exposure. .

I would encourage you write an article, I am sure it would be of
enough interest to be published on Micscape or some other microscopy
website. . I would be happy to help. Please contact me offline.

Aaron .

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 07:57:08 +0100, Richard Thomas
<rgt9@freenetname.co.uk> wrote:

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>On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:22:42 +0100, Aaron wrote
>(in article <agtjd01772es0qts1m8tjjjd8dc8ldh75f@4ax.com>):
>
>> The Nikon D100 SLR is not suited for this application.
>
>Well, it can be done. I have a D100 and a Nikon SMZ2T. Using a Nikon photo
>eyepiece, or a Zeiss KPL 10x eyepiece to project the image works fine.
>I'm no expert, but a little investigation revealed that positioning the
>camera so its film plane is closer to the photo relay lens (about 45mm closer
>than a film camera) results in a full frame image.
>It may help to independantly (and rigidly) support the D100 so that its
>weight is not sat on the trinocular port of the microscope.

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