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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:00 pm
- Forum: Photography Through the Microscope
- Topic: Calcite
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1102
Re: Calcite
Thanks. It turns out that Amazon has an Indian source with lots of tiny, cheap, chip diamonds.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:33 pm
- Forum: Photography Through the Microscope
- Topic: Calcite
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1102
Re: Calcite
Your micro-diamond chip looks pretty cool to me. Any idea where I could get one? They'd likely be a hit for kids in our local Micronaut program.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:28 am
- Forum: Photography Through the Microscope
- Topic: Calcite
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1102
Re: Calcite
Beautiful results - both on rebuilding the microscope and the images. They likely have you grinning ear to ear after all that work.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 2:19 pm
- Forum: Macro and Micro Technique and Technical Discussions
- Topic: What camera adapter for trinoclear microscope
- Replies: 9
- Views: 213
Re: What camera adapter for trinoclear microscope
At present I see your photos are listed as "not downloaded yet." That said, your 1/1.8" sensor size should do OK with around a .5x reduction lens fitted ahead of a C-mount camera (if that's how your camera is mounted). That assumes your AmScope microscope doesn't already have a photo relay lens in t...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 3:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum and Community Announcements
- Topic: Loss of Robert OToole
- Replies: 28
- Views: 809
Re: Loss of Robert OToole
I've known Robert only through this forum, where his keen mind, careful explorations, and generosity shone through. I hope his family and closest friends take solace in his life and legacy.
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:02 am
- Forum: Nature Photography -- Macro and Close-up
- Topic: Rio Bigal Reserve: Ecuador
- Replies: 11
- Views: 324
Re: Rio Bigal Reserve: Ecuador
Beautifully composed and an amazing diversity of critters. Thanks for sharing these.
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:52 pm
- Forum: Beginners Micro
- Topic: Olympus BX51TF as my first microscope - too much?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 102
Re: Olympus BX51TF as my first microscope - too much?
It would help to know what you want to view -- and also the importance of photography. The scope strikes me as an OK deal IF you need that assortment of optics. The ergonomic binocular head doesn't provide a means of adding a camera. The intermediate piece below it looks to be part of a teaching hea...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: Equipment Discussions
- Topic: Safe objective cleaning solution -- so much conflicting info online?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 745
Re: Safe objective cleaning solution -- so much conflicting info online?
It helps to have an idea of what the contaminant is to begin. That way you're not always escalating through various attempts, wiping across the lens and its coatings. I inspect with an illuminated magnifier. As everyone suggests, the dust goes with a blast of low pressure air. While I keep a big bul...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 1:03 am
- Forum: Equipment Exchange
- Topic: Free metallurgical microscopes!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 257
Re: Free metallurgical microscopes!
John - message sent.
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 6:55 pm
- Forum: Equipment Discussions
- Topic: Leica M series 50 mm thread?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 300
Re: Leica M series 50 mm thread?
Which Leica MZ do you have? The MZ6, which is a pretty direct descendent of the Wild M3Z, M7 etc. should fit your RAF adapter if it has an M50 x 1mm thread. Later (larger zoom ratio) Leica CMO scopes use a larger thread. There were some early Wild objectives for the M3 that had an M50 diameter, but ...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 1:15 am
- Forum: Equipment Exchange
- Topic: Nikon - DIC
- Replies: 5
- Views: 568
Re: Nikon - DIC +
Thanks, Stephen.
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 12:52 pm
- Forum: Equipment Exchange
- Topic: Nikon - DIC
- Replies: 5
- Views: 568
Re: Nikon - DIC +
Rafael, I have a somewhat related question. Do you or others know of a source that lists all the DIC prism sliders that Nikon made for its first-generation Eclipse DIC (the one with L-M-H prisms in the C-CU condenser)? I've never seen either a PA10 or PA20 prism - only the PF10 and PF20 - as an exam...
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 8:09 am
- Forum: Photography Through the Microscope
- Topic: Diatom: looks a bit like a SEM image
- Replies: 2
- Views: 768
Re: Diatom: looks a bit like a SEM image
Well, that's an auspicious (dare I say happy . . .) start to 2024! Beautiful image.
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 5:30 pm
- Forum: Equipment Discussions
- Topic: Nikon Microphot DIC
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3524
Re: Nikon Microphot DIC
I'm not aware of a service manual. In one case, I stripped out all the (to me) obsolete film camera electronics and turned a Microphot FXA into a manually operated scope. Most everything left, in terms of mechanisms and cleaning, was pretty straightforward. The only complications were packing a new ...
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 12:22 pm
- Forum: Equipment Discussions
- Topic: Nikon Microphot DIC
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3524
Re: Nikon Microphot DIC
My recollection is that you can get a half-decent DIC effect through some combination of dropping the condenser and slightly offsetting one of the DIC prisms. It wasn't completely even, but useful. Early Olympus DIC systems had the 10x, but omitted the 20x prism. Given a choice, I'd prefer having th...