Re: Digital Reflex on microscope

From: Richard J Kinch (nobody_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 06/28/04 

Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 00:01:39 -0500

David Littlewood writes:

> The later models all have much wider lenses which
> appear to be less suited to fitting to an eyepiece.

This is a problem of higher resolution. More pixels means the lens must be
larger to gather more light to continue to illuminate each pixel at the
same intensity compared to a lower resolution camera.

Lower resolution cameras tend to be roughly the scale of the human eye,
which is what makes them suitable for afocal (behind-the-eyepiece)
photomicrography. The 5 and 8 megapixel cameras of late are relatively
huge in scale.

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