Digital Microscopes: I've been doing a lot of macro but want to get closer. Does anyone have experience with digital microscopes? Recommendations? Thanks.

Owen Dell

I've been doing a lot of macro but want to get closer. Does anyone have experience with digital microscopes? Recommendations? Thanks.

BebuLamar

Keyence came to my place of work and demo a rather cool digital microscope. It does automatic stitching and focus stacking.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Here's a link to an article that got me started in micro/macro photography that I've shared with many others. It's relatively inexpensive, about a total of $50 investment and the results are quite stunning in detail.

https://www.closeuphotography.com/seventeen-dollar-plan-4x-objective/

Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

sippyjug104 wrote:

Here's a link to an article that got me started in micro/macro photography that I've shared with many others. It's relatively inexpensive, about a total of $50 investment and the results are quite stunning in detail.

https://www.closeuphotography.com/seventeen-dollar-plan-4x-objective/

That is a great site. But how does he do it? The images on that page - the pencil, the feather, the anthers- say "5 image stack." How is he getting that much depth of field with that magnification with only five images?

Mike

Blair Shaw Jr Loc: Dunnellon,Florida

sippyjug104 wrote:

Here's a link to an article that got me started in micro/macro photography that I've shared with many others. It's relatively inexpensive, about a total of $50 investment and the results are quite stunning in detail.

https://www.closeuphotography.com/seventeen-dollar-plan-4x-objective/

OH WOW.......you weren't kidding. That is really impressive results no matter how you got there. A lesson in the basics of optics 101. Interesting perspective and cost-effective.

fetzler Loc: North West PA

See the extreme macro web site - http://extreme-macro.co.uk
Also see the wemacro.com site. You may also be interested in the laowa 25mm lens (2.5 - 5x)

Microscope objectives can be used to get more power when mounted on extension tubes.
I have found that Raynox lenses work well when attached to a macro lens. I have three of different powers. I believe the one with the most magnification is +32 diopters. It is nicer to use these with proper step down rings. My favorite setup is the m.zuiko 60mm on the Pen F with the appropriate Raynox lens.

markie1425 Loc: Bryn Mawr, PA

Owen Dell wrote:

I've been doing a lot of macro but want to get closer. Does anyone have experience with digital microscopes? Recommendations? Thanks.

After much research, I just bought this 'scope for my nephew's 10th birthday.

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0094JTZOU/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_image_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I figured that a good 'scope might catch his interest and serve him through high school, and I was right. He has it locked away from his four younger sisters and spends much time finding things to enlarge.

He's happy as a clam.

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

markie1425 wrote:

After much research, I just bought this 'scope for my nephew's 10th birthday.

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0094JTZOU/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_image_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I figured that a good 'scope might catch his interest and serve him through high school, and I was right. He has it locked away from his four younger sisters and spends much time finding things to enlarge.

He's happy as a clam.

I also went the full microscope approach a few years back after being not greatly impressed with a couple of cheap (wonderfully promoted) units. Very happy with my lab grade microscope and polarizer. I just recently purchased a halo light for the unit, really improves upon the couple of LED lamps I was using previously.

Nice to have something to photograph indoor when the weather is crappy and the night skies are clouded over!

bwa

P.S.: And my grandkids really like examining almost anything they can get on the deck.

Bobspez Loc: Southern NJ, USA

He mounted an expensive microscope objective, a plan 4x objective on an expensive camera, a Nikon D810. These were not the images from an inexpensive digital microscope setup. Like other types of photography, microscope photography takes skill, proper lighting, and good equipment to get striking images. With a box of prepared slides you can get lost in the microscopic world for hours on end. The attached pic was lightly processed in Photoshop to approximate the colors and brilliance I saw through the eyepiece.

Blenheim Orange wrote:

That is a great site. But how does he do it? The images on that page - the pencil, the feather, the anthers- say "5 image stack." How is he getting that much depth of field with that magnification with only five images?

Mike

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