Well I have it set up, kind of. So far I am very pleased with it, the objectives appear very sharp but shutter speeds I think would be very slow for living critters - I'm not sure how I will go about getting a flash but I'll work on it. This is the first photograph I have taken with it. A prepared slide, the subject is a cross section of Dipylidium Gravid, the egg case of the worm from a flea which plague dogs (and humans). 100X and then blown up in photoshop.
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Hi Ken,
I'm glad you are up and running!! You got a great first shot. Was it a trinocular unit you got? What camera are you using? Did you apply any unsharp mask to your photo?
I think there is room for a 45-deg beamsplitter between your lamp collector and your phase condenser unit. I'll have to check my photos of my old LOMO to know for sure. That would be your best shot for a flash entry point. You also have a filter holder on top of the lamp collector. All you got to do is cut a 45-deg angle in a piece of pvc that fits in that filter recess. Then rtv a microscope slide onto the 45-deg cut. rotate it outward and hit it with a flash.
Won't be long, and Charlie will have convinced all of us to be using flashes!
I ordered my vivitar 283 and Wein safe sync. They arrived at my house yesterday. However the wife intercepted and said that nobody gets new stuff this close to Christmas without those items becoming defacto Christmas presents. So my flash sits under the tree until the 25th...
Steve
I'm glad you are up and running!! You got a great first shot. Was it a trinocular unit you got? What camera are you using? Did you apply any unsharp mask to your photo?
I think there is room for a 45-deg beamsplitter between your lamp collector and your phase condenser unit. I'll have to check my photos of my old LOMO to know for sure. That would be your best shot for a flash entry point. You also have a filter holder on top of the lamp collector. All you got to do is cut a 45-deg angle in a piece of pvc that fits in that filter recess. Then rtv a microscope slide onto the 45-deg cut. rotate it outward and hit it with a flash.
Won't be long, and Charlie will have convinced all of us to be using flashes!
I ordered my vivitar 283 and Wein safe sync. They arrived at my house yesterday. However the wife intercepted and said that nobody gets new stuff this close to Christmas without those items becoming defacto Christmas presents. So my flash sits under the tree until the 25th...
Steve
Thanks Steve, yes it is a trinocular and the camera is a 300D. I think I will have a problem with flash with this camera because it does not have a socket for remote flash connection - unless there is some other way of firing the flash from the camera. Long way to go yet. I processed the image in Photoshop with quite a lot of USM.
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WooHoo, Ken
Great first shot You can get a flash to work on your Rebel. There's a hot shoe on top of the prism housing. I think between the bunch of us we can get you going with flash.
Keep 'em coming, my friend
Great first shot You can get a flash to work on your Rebel. There's a hot shoe on top of the prism housing. I think between the bunch of us we can get you going with flash.
Keep 'em coming, my friend
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Hi Ken,
Let's see a picture of the rig!!! Also, what is your relay for the 300D?
You can also fire a slave flash using the Wein Peanut that Charlie talked about a while ago. The peanut senses the light from your camera's on-board flash and fires the external flash. YOu don't need a wire to the external flash then.
Steve
Let's see a picture of the rig!!! Also, what is your relay for the 300D?
You can also fire a slave flash using the Wein Peanut that Charlie talked about a while ago. The peanut senses the light from your camera's on-board flash and fires the external flash. YOu don't need a wire to the external flash then.
Steve
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