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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
12-31-2017, 03:58 AM
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
12-30-2017, 05:20 AM
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Welcome aboard! I don't have much experience in this area, but I do know that no new microscope adapters are currently being made by Pentax. So, turning to ebay is probably a good place to start:
Asahi Pentax Microscope Adapter II - MINT (OT) | eBay
Also, a camera with live view (such as the K-30, K-50, K-5, or newer) may make your life much easier and result in sharper photos, since you'll be able to check and adjust the focus more easily.
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
12-30-2017, 05:39 AM
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Hi from Australia Lisa, and welcome to the Pentax forums. Here is a link to some microscopy techniques that might help. Good to have you here. :)
Microscopy Imaging Techniques |
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
12-30-2017, 05:42 AM
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
12-30-2017, 07:34 AM
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Hi Lisa, welcome to the forum :)
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
12-30-2017, 10:00 AM
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hi, my day job deals in high rez digital imaging of microscope slides for pathologists. happy to share some ideas in a chat if you like
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
12-30-2017, 04:25 PM
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Hi Lisa,
I am brand new to these forums myself (this is my introductory post) so welcome and I wish you and your husband good imaging.
This seems to be an amazing community from what I have sen in the last month of using the forum and you already have some good ideas and offers of help.
I'll throw in my 2 Cents too.
I do technical support for US Zeiss Microscopy and we have a guided scope-camera adaptation wizard for our own scopes and many third party cameras. Carl Zeiss Microscopy, LLC, United States > Camera Assistant
Some couplings are optically non-feasible and this can be especially true for some small field of view microscopes and large camera chips.
For SLRs (often with large chipsets) means you have to get an adapter to Magnify (spread out the light) of the image going to the Chip and you may face severe vignetting/ distortions or cropping of the field of view projecting to the camera.
The coupling of the camera to microscope is an important one and you should ideally use a photo-port (camera port built into the microscope) if you have one - otherwise the eyepiece adapters are just ok. See: See: Connecting a camera to a microscope | MicrobeHunter Microscopy Magazine
Whoever made you microscope should be able help you locate the appropriate photo adapter and there are retailers:
Microscope Port Adapters - Thorlabs and a few guys that can make custom adapters too. e.g. Richard J Kinch, PhD
Good luck
Tim
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
12-30-2017, 04:40 PM
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Hi Tim. :) Very helpful 1st post, excellent info given. :cool:
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
12-30-2017, 04:43 PM
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
12-30-2017, 05:29 PM
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Hi, Lisa,
In the UK, check out
SRB Photographic - Camera Accessories
They do all kinds of adapters, standard and made to measure. My only connection is as a satisfied customer (adapter to enable me to use my K20d for digiscoping on my Leica scope).
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