Videolabs, Golden Valley, Mn.  has a line of cameras with lens adapters for
microscopes.

Craig
TRI-C Design, Inc.


----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen R. Gregory <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: [TN] digital camera


> In a message dated 08/04/2000 3:39:28 PM Central Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> > Greetings Technet.
> >
> >  I remember there were a few postings regarding the use of regular
personal
> > digital cameras on a microscope.  Can anyone recommend any brands that's
> > capable of being used with a microscope...and also taking macro
pictures?
> >
> >  Thanks,
> >
> >  Hans Shin
> >  Pacific Testing Laboratories, Inc.
> >  http://www.pacifictesting.com/
>
> Hi Hans!
>
> Here's a paste of the post I made a week or so ago:
>
> Hi Larry and John!
>
> Like Mike Sewell said, I used a digital camera and a microscope. We do
have
> an ERSA scope here, but the one drawback that I've seen so far is that it
> saves the images in a 640 X 480 resolution. This images are much clearer
on
> the monitor that what you'll see in a saved picture...gonna' talk with
ERSA
> about that.
>
> But what I use is a FUJIFILM MX-600ZOOM and it has 1280 X 1024 resolution.
It
> also has a color LCD in the back of the camera so that I can see exactly
what
> my lense sees when I want to take a picture. I put my camera in Macro
mode,
> turn the flash off, and then like Mike said, focus the microscope on what
I
> want to take a picture of,
> take the rubber eyepiece "thingie" off of one microscope eyepiece so I can
> put the lense of my camera right up to the microscope eyepiece, look at
the
> LCD on the back of my camera until I see what I want to take a picture of
> (that can be kinda' tricky sometimes), say "cheese" and snap the picture.
>
> I then download the picture and import it into Paintshop Pro to crop out
all
> but what I need...that's because a full 1280 X 1024 can be close to
3-megs!!
> YOWZA!!
>
> -Steve Gregory-
>
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