EDP - Experimental Digital Photography

I’ve had requests to show the rig I have been experimenting with. So consider this a first pass at this.

I am using a Chinese made (I am looking at importing and selling them in Australia, as the price is GREAT) stereo binocular microscope that seems to have very good optics. It is a zoom model with a 1-4x objective pair and a 10x eyepiece pair, for a normal coverage of 10x to 40x. I can swap eyepieces for greater or lesser magnification. It has the trinocular head setup so that the camera mounts to a third, vertical eyepiece, also a 10x at present though I will likely swap this for a specialist photo eyepiece at some point.

Below is a picture of the whole rig followed by a closeup of the camera section

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After careful focus setting for the camera eyepiece, so it is parfocal with the main eyepieces, I got the following result with my Canon 400D.

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Below is the first image I got through my microscope, a 10-40x stereo binocular microscope.

It is a bit low contrast compared to the view through the microscope and not as sharp.

Ok, Voting is now closed.

I propose the following images as those having a vote score of over 2.5

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