Microscope Photo Accessories
When Lukey and I were using the microscope a week or so ago, I noticed a few nagging problems that needed to be resolved before I attempted another microscopy session and especially a session that included photography and/or videography. I spent the past week or so trying to resolve these problems and thought it would be best to document it all here. My first problem was that what I was seeing on my camera (and on the 32" monitor connected to my camera) was not nearly as crisp as what I was seeing visually in the binocular eyepieces. This was really frustrating. I had been using my Sony a6000 camera in a prime focus configuration. Prime focus imaging involves no additional lenses including eyepieces. This type of imaging works very well in astronomy but I was not liking what I was getting in microscopy. The images and video were very soft, sort of mushy, un-crisp. They looked really terrible on the 32 inch monitor. The next problem was figuring out what I actually needed to