Amazing !
Last one is

Interesting shapes. These are single shots or stacks ?

I used colimating lens, not hemisphere (got this DIC'ish effect) .
Found it useful mixing with other illumination types.

Rotation/displacing helps a lot (if you have enough room between condenser holder and illuminator) .

Short YouTube video

dolmadis wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 31, 2020 12:19 am

Very nice Saul. An ancient floor tile from Pompeii?

Best, John

Thanks John !
Yep ! And you can see lava through the cracks !

Table salt crystal, Nikon Plan 10x, Microphot, Sony A6300, mixed illumination, 86 photos, PS stack

Thanks Pete !
PM me your shipping address.
I’m using foam friction pads instead springs, they perform very well.
Best,
Saul

Looking for the person (in US) who is willing to test DF/Pol/Rheinberg/Oblique insert set for Olympus phase condenser (condenser is not included). I suspect it is for Olympus BH2-PC (do not own this condenser , one person ordered it, but never got response from him) Please check the attached drawing...

OK, got answer from another forum:

https://www.motic.com/As_News/n116.html

Got Motic (as per ebay listing description) condenser:

After couple weeks I saw another same condenser listing, which states that it is a Zeiss Primo Star condenser.
Mistake in the listing, both brands sharing same condenser or something else ?

Couple days after
Now at 50x+140TL=33.75x, minimal retouching
Dried out and some stuff started growing up ...
Different illumination
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Thank you all !

dolmadis wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 22, 2020 4:46 am

...Can you tell us/show us more about Sanderson prisms please?
Thanks
John

Hi John,
http://docplayer.net/148119567-Flow-vis ... prism.html

Sony A6300, PMax, 98 photos, Microphot, Nikon 20x BD inf with 135mm TL
Illumination is done with Sanderson prisms and pol filters.

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It covers aps-c but with a bit of flare and edge shading due to the design of the trinoc port (edge shading could probably be mitigated by rotating the camera 90 degrees). Wasn't super happy with image quality, though I have been thoroughly spoiled by name brand stereos. I did a little writeup over...

You just need to mount a viewing eyepiece at the right height--since a cell phone has a lens on it afocal is about your only option. This model has an m26x0.5 thread on the trinocular port, and the primary image is far enough above for direct projection onto a dslr, so adapting on an eyepiece shoul...