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There are SO MANY! How to choose? I was hoping to see some of your pics. Dino Lite's website has 68 different models listed for sale. SHEESH.
I do love my Olloclip, but I need to do better.
I do love my Olloclip, but I need to do better.
How I pay the bills:
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. Pictures at the review. For my needs, I'm happy enough, but I'd prefer something easier to focus.
When I went to Windows 7 the thing would not work, and even when it did work the white balance was always off.
I bought the thing at a coin show and it has been several hundred dollars wasted.
To expand on this, the thing is totally useless for slabbed coins. The internal lightly system does nothing but reflect back into the lens. If you try to use an external light source, the white balance can't be corrected. They have lights at the shows that make their product look good to sell the thing to you, but they don't offer those lights for sale and won't tell you where to buy them. The sales people are there only sell the product, not to help the consumer.
As you can see I am a very dissatisfied customer.
Lostincoins must be using this version:
They are not cameras so do not expect a high quality image.
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Thru plastic
Thru Mint pliofilm
Not the greatest pictures, but not totally awful either, especially since I'm horrible with a camera. Would probably get better if I played with it more.
I now mostly use 2 ott-lites with it.
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1947-P & D; 1948-D; 1949-P & S; 1950-D & S; and 1952-S.
Any help locating any of these OBW rolls would be gratefully appreciated!
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does anyone use a 500x or 800x? i saw some recently and was curious if the magnification was close to accurate.
i've used 300x many years ago and would enjoy seeing updates.
also would be nice to compare to my microscopic objective i purchased from a kind board member.
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<< <i>Taken using a camera, I have never been impressed with result from digital microscopes.
They are not cameras so do not expect a high quality image.
Oh man Blu62vette -- that is one cool image!
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<< <i>A worthless piece of junk. The one I have is useless. A waste of several hundred dollars. >>
What model do you have?
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I can not attest to the photography aspects as I am basically computer stupid.
But I use my Dino Lite extensively for the ease of variety identifications. It is
easy and convenient to use and the images displayed on the monitor are great.
doug
1806 O-106
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Sometimes the picture is a bit blurry, but that is because I may have moved, so I delete & try again..
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This picture was taken using a dome with one Ott light. Diffused lighting subdues the luster, but is easier to control the lighting. I'm not yet pleased with the crispness of the picture, don't know if it is me or the scope.
And now BillJones comments and others have me wondering, can you really get full coin pictures that are detailed and crisp. I compare my picture to other posts with camera pics and think they are better. You can see detail like the die lines on this coin, but something still seems a bit blurry about the pic. Any thoughts?
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<< <i>And now BillJones comments and others have me wondering, can you really get full coin pictures that are detailed and crisp. >>
I think by definition, no. These are not cameras. They are microscopes meant for close-ups. Why would they take good full coin pics?
<< <i>The inherent blurriness you see is diffraction at work. USB microscopes are designed to have good depth of field so you can take a single picture and it is all in focus. The optical aperture (basically the diameter of the optics compared with the focal length) is small to achieve this, but the tradeoff for good depth of field is blurriness from diffraction. Regular camera optics can do better because the optics are relatively larger in diameter so they don't show as much diffraction blurriness. But the tradeoff is that they have shallower depth of field, so only a part of the image in a narrow plane is in focus. In this case it is possible to take multiple images, each at different focal planes, and use software to compose a final image made up of just the in-focus pixels. This is called focus-stacking. However, for most of the USB microscopes the depth of field is quite deep and focus stacking does not make sense or would not be helpful. >>
Most helpful, thanks.
<< <i>The inherent blurriness you see is diffraction at work. USB microscopes are designed to have good depth of field so you can take a single picture and it is all in focus. The optical aperture (basically the diameter of the optics compared with the focal length) is small to achieve this, but the tradeoff for good depth of field is blurriness from diffraction. Regular camera optics can do better because the optics are relatively larger in diameter so they don't show as much diffraction blurriness. But the tradeoff is that they have shallower depth of field, so only a part of the image in a narrow plane is in focus. In this case it is possible to take multiple images, each at different focal planes, and use software to compose a final image made up of just the in-focus pixels. This is called focus-stacking. However, for most of the USB microscopes the depth of field is quite deep and focus stacking does not make sense or would not be helpful. >>
Most helpful, thanks.