[meteorite-list] Through the eyepiece microscope photography

From: Pat Brown <radio_ranch_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:39:06 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <85934.70267.qm_at_web51309.mail.yahoo.com>

Hi Darren and the List,

I was also leery of the small digital point and shoot
cameras with the really small optics. I am a fan of
Sony cameras. I have had the DSC-F505V and currently
have a DSC-F828. The photos from the 828 look great. I
recently bought a Sony DSC-S500 6Mpixel point and
shoot for $180(not as good for through-the-eyepiece
microscope photos as the DSC-P92 due to the setback
from the front edge of the lens assembly to the actual
lens). I am amazed at the quality of the optics in the
little S500. I have taken large landscape photos and
blown them up to 12"x18" with eye-popping results.

ymmv with non-Sony cameras....

Pat Brown
--- Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net> wrote:

> 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.
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Received on Mon 29 Jan 2007 01:39:06 AM PST