Celestron Handheld Digital Microscope Pro

[VAB2013]

Ray, there are two

Digital Photo Professional and
Picture Style Editor

I tried the Picture Style Editor first and the only file type I recognized is a tif - saved my png as a tif and the software would not open it.

Then I tried to download the Digital Photo Professional and it requires a product serial number.

Do you have any other ideas? I have already tried GIMP and paint.net and was not real thrilled with them. And the photo thing that comes with Windows 10 is... pretty bad.

[ray_parkhurst]

Hmm, I did not know DPP required a product serial number. Thought it was a free download. Sorry for that. I can provide a serial number if you want to try it and see if it works better for you than the others you've tried. Nikon has a similar product (Nikon View or Nikon View 2) but they may have gone to a serial number requirement as well. A couple years ago neither required a serial number to download the editor, just the control software. Maybe an old version can be downloaded from another site. I will look around.

edited to add: I found a free download site and will try it...http://digital-photo-professional.en.lo4d.com/

[VAB2013]

Hmm, I did not know DPP required a product serial number. Thought it was a free download. Sorry for that. I can provide a serial number if you want to try it and see if it works better for you than the others you've tried. Nikon has a similar product (Nikon View or Nikon View 2) but they may have gone to a serial number requirement as well. A couple years ago neither required a serial number to download the editor, just the control software. Maybe an old version can be downloaded from another site. I will look around.

edited to add: I found a free download site and will try it...http://digital-photo-professional.en.lo4d.com/

Thank you Ray, I'm downloading from the link you provided right now!

Edit: The program is working fine and I really like it! You are pretty awesome Ray! TY!!

[ray_parkhurst]

Excellent!

Let me know if you have questions about how to do something you want to do and I will write out a step by step workflow instruction.

[VAB2013]

Update: I emailed Tyler at Celestron and asked him about the software deficiencies as far as not being able to adjust color. He said unfortunately there is nothing we can do about the software.

Ray's software suggestion here is excellent edited to add: I found a free download site and will try it...http://digital-photo-professional.en.lo4d.com/

My next question for Ray and Celestron is if they think a color correction lighting gel filter would help, and if so... what color? (whenever I can use natural daylight that works best, otherwise the tissue paper filter works okay, but it seems to be messing with the focus and clarity somewhat)

This has turned out to be a great scope for searching large quantities of Lincolns in that it's easy, fast, easy on the back and neck, and it has very good magnification. It's just the LED lights that are making photos difficult. I'm still trying to find goose neck lights that do not have LED bulbs. I think with the right lighting, it will make a great difference in the photos!

[VAB2013]

This is my first doubled die find 5 years ago. It is coppercoins.com 1983P-1DO-001.

These were taken with natural light and just a side swing arm lamp with a normal light bulb to try to compensate for the natural light not being quite enough. Well then the sun came out and I had to close the window curtain!

Since the light is not shining where I want it to be, I had to turn the coin into the light to capture the notching in LIBERTY and the rest of the motto.

Question for Ray... Will the grey thing at the top of the pole come off? I took the tiny screw out of it and pulled on it. I need to move the scope up just a tiny bit to get a full coin photo. (and also look for the pole extension you found)

It is not easy to fine focus when your subject has poor lighting bouncing all over the place! I could have spent more time and probably made these photos better, but I want to get back to searching rolls!

[VAB2013]

Thank you Jon for taking a look. Please tell me... are the photos opening up automatically or are you having to download them first? They are actually saved on my computer as .png's but they are showing up on the forum as .jpg's

[makecents]

Thank you Jon for taking a look. Please tell me... are the photos opening up automatically or are you having to download them first? They are actually saved on my computer as .png's but they are showing up on the forum as .jpg's

They are opening up without a download. Nice pics to by the way and a nice DDO to cut your teeth on!!

[VAB2013]

They are opening up without a download. Nice pics to by the way and a nice DDO to cut your teeth on!!

Thank you Jon! Yes it was, I will never forget my first doubled die! But... this was a tricky one to attribute because of the reverse die change at MDS. Took over 2 years until some more of them turned up on the forum with the same reverse marker at FG. It was however, a very good one to learn on... kind of threw me in hot water right off the bat!

[jfines69]

Those are really ice images Vivien!!!

[VAB2013]

Those are really ice images Vivien!!!

Thank you Jim, still need some work on this lighting issue though. Daylight is good, but even that is not dependable... the sun comes and goes right in the middle of things!

[duece2seven]

Nice coin and nice pics, Viv! Very nice detail, too. I'm impressed with your glare control.
If you can take what I call a "quiet" pic with little or no glare of an early 80's copper beast,
you're definitely doing it right.

Tracy

[duece2seven]

Update: I emailed Tyler at Celestron and asked him about the software deficiencies as far as not being able to adjust color. He said unfortunately there is nothing we can do about the software.

Ray's software suggestion here is excellent edited to add: I found a free download site and will try it...http://digital-photo-professional.en.lo4d.com/

My next question for Ray and Celestron is if they think a color correction lighting gel filter would help, and if so... what color? (whenever I can use natural daylight that works best, otherwise the tissue paper filter works okay, but it seems to be messing with the focus and clarity somewhat)

This has turned out to be a great scope for searching large quantities of Lincolns in that it's easy, fast, easy on the back and neck, and it has very good magnification. It's just the LED lights that are making photos difficult. I'm still trying to find goose neck lights that do not have LED bulbs. I think with the right lighting, it will make a great difference in the photos!

Viv, here's a link for the gel sheets. I currently use the gold one in combination with white printer paper to actually cover the LED's and shoot close-ups.
I cut them to match the LED's putting the paper on top with the gel sheet portion facing downward towards the coin. Your color won't be perfect but it will
enable you to capture notching and separation without any external lighting on most coins. However, it won't help much on the full coin shots using the LED's.
I've haven't tried them yet but I've always wanted to try one of these gel sheets in "Daylight" color on my external light sources. If you search Amazon, they do
offer the Daylight sheets somewhere on there but they're hard to find in just that color. They usually make you buy them as part of a bundle like the link below.

And remember not to try too hard to be perfect with this stuff! . Your pics are plenty good for what we do here. Anything better is just gravy!

Amazon link:

https://www.amazon.com/Neewer-12-Inches-Transparent-Correction-Different/dp/B01CCIKB5Q/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1516015820&sr=8-4&keywords=gel+filter+sheet

[ray_parkhurst]

Update: I emailed Tyler at Celestron and asked him about the software deficiencies as far as not being able to adjust color. He said unfortunately there is nothing we can do about the software.

Ray's software suggestion here is excellent edited to add: I found a free download site and will try it...http://digital-photo-professional.en.lo4d.com/

My next question for Ray and Celestron is if they think a color correction lighting gel filter would help, and if so... what color? (whenever I can use natural daylight that works best, otherwise the tissue paper filter works okay, but it seems to be messing with the focus and clarity somewhat)

This has turned out to be a great scope for searching large quantities of Lincolns in that it's easy, fast, easy on the back and neck, and it has very good magnification. It's just the LED lights that are making photos difficult. I'm still trying to find goose neck lights that do not have LED bulbs. I think with the right lighting, it will make a great difference in the photos!

Are you thinking about filtering the light to change its color? If so, that won't help. You would need to add the filter between the coin and the camera. Might be worth a try.

edit: just read the response above...not sure how it's helping.

[ray_parkhurst]

This is my first doubled die find 5 years ago. It is coppercoins.com 1983P-1DO-001.

These were taken with natural light and just a side swing arm lamp with a normal light bulb to try to compensate for the natural light not being quite enough. Well then the sun came out and I had to close the window curtain!

Since the light is not shining where I want it to be, I had to turn the coin into the light to capture the notching in LIBERTY and the rest of the motto.

Question for Ray... Will the grey thing at the top of the pole come off? I took the tiny screw out of it and pulled on it. I need to move the scope up just a tiny bit to get a full coin photo. (and also look for the pole extension you found)

It is not easy to fine focus when your subject has poor lighting bouncing all over the place! I could have spent more time and probably made these photos better, but I want to get back to searching rolls!

The cap comes right off from mine. I just left it off after removing it.