New Camera Question: Which to use with a scope?

DMWJR

Does anybody use a digital camera with a microscope? I'm trying to help a variety specialist move to the new age of digital. Right now, he uses a standard film camera with his scope, but he needs to get with the program.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Placid

I have heard the intel digital microscopes work well and cost about $30. There is a thread about it here Link
But that would be the cheap way to go and get whatever camera you want as well.

coppercoins

My personal way of handling it is with the Sony Mavica, and I hold the camera up to the eyepiece and let it look through the scope the same way I do. It's effective, but it might not be if you don't have a steady hand. As for a trioptical microscope with a camera adaper - I would think that would work with the Sony, but I'm not sure since I've never done it myself.

You might want to take the variety specialist to my site to take a look around at the photos there. Use the "die variety seach" link located just beneath the date on the left side ofthe screen, then plug in some date in the 1940s...I have the most photos completed in those dates. All of the photos on that site were taken with a Sony Mavica through the eyepiece of a stereomicroscope and edited using Adobe Photoshop.

coppercoins

Those Intel scopes are JUNK! They might work okay for runnin an auction or something to that effect, but they fall WAY short of producing images that are publishable. I wouldn't recommend them at all.

DMWJR

I bought an Intel just for screwing around.

I currently use a digital and look through the lens, like you suggest. I just thought there should be a more convenient way to use a trinoc scope to take pictures. Maybe someone will come on who does it this way and can share.