[meteorite-list] Through the eyepiece microscope photography

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:56:31 -0500
Message-ID: <6prqr29bntkejann7fhvnus4t7o43h58dv_at_4ax.com>

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:45:47 -0800 (PST), you wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>Here is the information that i said I would post about
>through-the-eyepiece misroscope digital photography.
>The camera that is used in my lab is a
>Sony DSC-P92. No special settings are used. The tech
>just zooms until the image is full frame and presses
>the timer release for the shutter.

Thanks. Normally I'm no fan of the consumer cameras with a lens smaller than a
dime (I find it hard to believe that they really are good enough to justify the
multi-megapixel CCD behind them) but one drawback of a big piece of glass is
that it just doesn't work for pointing down a microscope (or telescope). I've
tried it before with my F707 (58mm mounting ring) and the image from the
microscope/telescope fills only about 5 percent of the CCD, or only a couple of
hundred thousand pixels. I'd like to get a cheap (less than $50 or so) "small
glass" digicam for using with a microscope, but I don't know which ones don't
suck.
Received on Sun 28 Jan 2007 10:56:31 PM PST