Re: adaptaters for Leica DM 500

On Jun 15, 5:20 pm, David <pennin...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jun 15, 11:24 am, Daniel <danieldezut...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,
I bought a Leica DM 500 microscope with a  trinocular head (inlet
diameter: 37 mm).
I would like to know what adapters do I need to place a mini digital
camera on the outlet of the trinocular microscope?
What other adapters do I need to place a camera canon eos 400 D?
Thank you

Daniel

Hello Daniel

The manual with systems diagram is available to download from various
sites if you do a Google search. The manual shows that the trino head
is a C mount for appropriate relay lens so depending on budget you can
explore options that suit either Leica's relay lenses and cameras or
elsewhere. Cheapest may be a security style camera with a video
grabber or could choose one of the many microscope cameras with C
mount.

There are C mount to to T2 SLR camera lens adapters if the the
microscope fitting is female but may not be a good match of image size
with DSLR sensor size, you could play around with tracing paper to
inspect projected image to get a feel for what may work.

David

Correction, from a boxed example on eBay you may have just a blank
port to take their relay lens / C mount (explains the 37mm you
mentioned). If with tracing paper there's a decent image been
projected from their as-is you may be able to devise something if wish
to avoid expensive Leica accessories.

David
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