The 'standard' system appears to be attaching a DSLR to the phototube of a trinocular microscope.
The setup I use is to mount the camera on a wooden frame and position it above the projection eyepiece - no contact between camera and microscope.
Top: TV monitor screen shot of a bird louse. Louse mounted on slide and imaged with a 4x Nikon CFN Plan on an Olympus BH2/BHS, 1.25x auxillary lens (polarization filter holder), 2.5x Olympus NFK projection eyepiece.
Middle: DSLR mounted above phototube; NFK eyepice projects an image to the camera's sensor, The extension tubes and glass filter are not required but are useful for keeping the sensor free of dust.
Bottom; actual setup for imaging; some form of 'light blocker' is required to keep out ambient light.
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NU.
student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
Nikon camera, lenses and objectives
Olympus microscope and objectives
The Bird Louse photographed through the microscope.
This louse from the feather of a crow, It is a chewing louse (Mallophaga), eats feathers (yuk!) and looks like chewed up feathers in the gut. Some other lice are blood-suckers.
Freshly discarded bird feathers are one source for such chewing lice.
This combination, Nikon 4x objective, Olympus microscope + 1.25x auxillary lens +2.5x projection eyepiece to give 12.5x magnification is not my 1st choice for such subjects. It served the purpose for showing the setup.
Normally would use a 10x CFN Plan Nikon on bellows.
NU.
student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
Nikon camera, lenses and objectives
Olympus microscope and objectives
