Making Digital Camera Microscope Adapters

[Guest]

This guy makes adapters for almost any kind of camera to mount on a microscope, I found the info on his page quite useful . he machines the adapters, but I read somewhere about guys using PVC pipe and Jerry rigging their own adapters , tons of info , I didn't read it all yet, he gets technical on alot of stuff.

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Besides the mechanical attachment, these adapters apply one of several optical principles to couple the camera to the microscope, including:

Afocal (through the normal eyepiece to inexpensive small-format digital cameras)
Focal (from a photoport to lensless digital SLR cameras)
Focal (from a photoport to small-format digital cameras via a relay lens)
Afocal (through a custom photo-eyepiece for large-lensed digital cameras)

http://www.truetex.com/micad.htm

[jasjoh]

Here's a link to how-to on pvp pipe + foam sheet adapter.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Camera-microscope-adapter-for-less-than-15/

[ray_parkhurst]

There's an excellent forum that deals with high magnification photography using microscopes (photomicrography) and using normal macro equipment (photomacrography):

http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/

You will be blown away by some of the setups these folks put together! There are many threads showing various ways to adapt cameras.