Playing with a cheap microscope

Lord Vetinari · September 20, 2020

Bought a cheap microscope but with full size objectives etc (SWIFT Microscope SW150 £68 on offer). Managed to attach a camera body using a telescope mount plus some pipe lagging and then used a couple of LED lamps to illuminate the subjects whilst I took some focus stacks just using the fine focus knob at 10X. The results seemed surprisingly good to me.

Brian V.

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Fuchsia anther
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e6filmuser · September 20, 2020

Brian,

Nice results.

Are you going to try flash?

Harold

Lord Vetinari · September 21, 2020

@e6filmuser said:
Brian,

Nice results.

Are you going to try flash?

Harold

Thanks Harold- Was not going to use flash as I rather enjoyed being able to do without it.

Brian v.

e6filmuser · September 21, 2020

@Lord Vetinari said:

@e6filmuser said:
Brian,

Nice results.

Are you going to try flash?

Harold

Thanks Harold- Was not going to use flash as I rather enjoyed being able to do without it.

Brian v.

Brian,

I can't think of a better reason.

Harold

Playing with a cheap microscope

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