[meteorite-list] First attempt at photographing thin sections

From: Richard Kowalski <damoclid_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 03:01:42 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <589395.89424.qm_at_web113617.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

I had some free time tonight so I cut a few pieces of some plastic polarizing filter I had and used them on our biological microscope. I had picked up a few low priced thin sections at this past year's Tucson shows. For a first ever attempt at photographing thin sections in cross polarized light, I think I've done an ok. job.

I've uploaded my first 5 to an album on Facebook. Below is a link that should be accessible even if you don't have a FB account.

http://tinyurl.com/27uj6tk

I haven't yet calibrated my field of view yet, so at the moment I can't offer the scale of the features in the images. Sorry.

I'd appreciate any tips or advice the experts are willing offer to help make future images better.

Thanks

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Richard Kowalski
Full Moon Photography
IMCA #1081
      

Received on Tue 05 Oct 2010 06:01:42 AM PDT