[meteorite-list] First attempt at photographing thin sections

From: Starsinthedirt at aol.com <Starsinthedirt_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 10:01:30 EDT
Message-ID: <62e18.f8136ee.39dc89ba_at_aol.com>

Absolutely wonderful! Every one should take a look. Very well done!

Now that you have jumped on this train you are in for quite a ride. Given
your photography skills, you will soon be amazing us all.

My tip. Now that you have seen what can be done, loose the plastic
polarizing film. Buy cheap glass camera polarizes or sacrifice a couple you
already have lying around. Cut them to size with your rock saw (Any diamond
blade, water cooled tile saw will do). You will enjoy your time spent much
more.

Tom

In a message dated 10/5/2010 4:01:59 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
damoclid at yahoo.com writes:
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

--
Richard Kowalski
Full Moon  Photography
IMCA #1081
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Received on Tue 05 Oct 2010 10:01:30 AM PDT