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<blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 199015" data-attributes="member: 16749"><p>So, let's see if I am correctly understanding you, here.</p><p></p><p> This is with a standard eyepiece on the microscope, a standard lens on the DSLR, and pointing the DSLR into the eyepiece, correct? That's pretty much how I've been taking pictures through my microscope using my Sakar 87690, a cheap 7MP camera; and before that, how I took pictures using a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak_DC3200" target="_blank">Kodak DC3200</a> (which, by coincidence, has a very similar model designation to my new DSLR).</p><p></p><p> With the Sakar, I just rest the camera on the eyepiece. Plastic on the camera touches plastic on the eyepiece, and neither the camera nor the eyepiece has any of its glass touching anything.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]52838[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p> Surely, that wouldn't be how you'd do it with a DSLR. You didn't have the front glass element of your lens resting on the microscope's eyepiece, did you? I'm very fussy about anything touching the glass, and I'd expect anyone with an expensive lens or other fine optics to be likewise. So how much space did you have between the lens and the eyepiece, and how did you maintain that space?</p><p></p><p> And what did you do about keeping light from entering the lens around the microscope?</p><p></p><p> It occurs to me that vibration from the camera could cause issues. I'm quite sure my Sakar has no moving parts at all, but my DSLR has the mirror and the focal plane shutter, which could cause vibration at the time the picture is being taken. Running the camera in “Live View” mode would eliminate the mirror movement, but not the shutter.</p><p></p><p> I have a vague memory of trying something similar to this, a long time ago, with this same microscope (back then, my father was still alive, and it was his microscope) and my <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon_F2" target="_blank">F2</a>. I had the F2 mounted on a tripod, pointing down, and positions just barely over the microscope. The experiment went as far as me looking through the F2's viewfinder, and determining that the image from the microscope was not being properly rendered therein.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bob Blaylock, post: 199015, member: 16749"] So, let's see if I am correctly understanding you, here. This is with a standard eyepiece on the microscope, a standard lens on the DSLR, and pointing the DSLR into the eyepiece, correct? That's pretty much how I've been taking pictures through my microscope using my Sakar 87690, a cheap 7MP camera; and before that, how I took pictures using a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak_DC3200"]Kodak DC3200[/URL] (which, by coincidence, has a very similar model designation to my new DSLR). With the Sakar, I just rest the camera on the eyepiece. Plastic on the camera touches plastic on the eyepiece, and neither the camera nor the eyepiece has any of its glass touching anything. [ATTACH=CONFIG]52838._xfImport[/ATTACH] Surely, that wouldn't be how you'd do it with a DSLR. You didn't have the front glass element of your lens resting on the microscope's eyepiece, did you? I'm very fussy about anything touching the glass, and I'd expect anyone with an expensive lens or other fine optics to be likewise. So how much space did you have between the lens and the eyepiece, and how did you maintain that space? And what did you do about keeping light from entering the lens around the microscope? It occurs to me that vibration from the camera could cause issues. I'm quite sure my Sakar has no moving parts at all, but my DSLR has the mirror and the focal plane shutter, which could cause vibration at the time the picture is being taken. Running the camera in “Live View” mode would eliminate the mirror movement, but not the shutter. I have a vague memory of trying something similar to this, a long time ago, with this same microscope (back then, my father was still alive, and it was his microscope) and my [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon_F2"]F2[/URL]. I had the F2 mounted on a tripod, pointing down, and positions just barely over the microscope. The experiment went as far as me looking through the F2's viewfinder, and determining that the image from the microscope was not being properly rendered therein. [/QUOTE]
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