Hi Inge! Every picture I've taken and posted on my web page is from a Nikon Coolpix 4800 through the eyepiece of a regular microscope. I've been doing that since I left California in 1999. It's simple, just focus in what you want to look at, carefully hold the camera lense up against the microscope eyepiece, look at the display on the back of the camera until you like what you see, and then snap the picture! I usually take at least a couple of photos to be sure I get a nice clear one, but you tell me, do you like the pictures I post? My Nikon camera was only $349... Steve Gregory -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Hfjord Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 12:47 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] Microscope camera, I deny pay all that money! Hi, is there possibly a subdivision for skinflints in TechNet? I want a good microscope camera and a program for PC. There are numerous of brands, most of them very good, like Olympus, Nikon, Kappa etc. But the price! 5,000 USD and up. It's robbery. You get a super system SLR digital camera for 1,000. Much more advanced than a microscope camera. The microscope camera does not even use a advanced lense, the projection just leaves the trinocular and hit the chip. There must be a way to buy good digital stuff and put together with a cheap image processing program. You may buy a cheap digital camera, design a C-ring adapter and use the framegrabber in Pinnacle 10, just one example. Won't cost more than 1,000. I know in principal what to do, but there use to be people who are very creative on these things. Anyone who have a good proposal? The cheapskate Inge --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 ----------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------