[Histonet] Cheap digital camera microscope adapters?

[Massimo]

Hi,

I have already answer at a similar question.
I hope it would be useful so I refer the whole text:

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On the phototube of the "Lomo" tri-ocular head of my microscope I use a Nikon Coolpix P310 Camera without a "C" adaper.
The phototube mounts a "Leitz" eyepiece 10x for photography (red dot) with a high exit eyepoint and a standard outside diameter barrel of 23.2 mm.
The eyepiece is placed into an aluminum cylinder with an external diameter of 50.0 mm. and fixed by a plastic screw.
The camera is hold on the cylinder by an "Universal Digiscoping Adapter" (diameter range: 43 - 65 mm.) brand "Vortex", which allows
the movement of the camera in the X - Y directions.
You can watch at the assembled system and some results on this folder link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?qpo6i34ibh8o7


COST of the Nikon P310 camera in Italy on 29 May 2012: 350.00 Euro

If you want to keep your "C" mount adaper you can choice among Nikon Coolpix cameras:
900, 995 and 4500.
They are quite obsolete with cheap costs and you can still find something on "eBay".
Despite its low cost they give good results.


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Kind Regards,

Massimo Tosi
"A humble
Chemical Engineer who loves Histology"



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 Da: Rene J Buesa <rjbuesa <@t> yahoo.com>
A: Mikael Niku <mikael.niku <@t> helsinki.fi>; "histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu" <histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu> 
Inviato: Venerdì 22 Marzo 2013 14:50
Oggetto: Re: [Histonet] Cheap digital camera microscope adapters?
 
If you have a Nikon Coolpix, you can adapt it to the microscope very easily although the Nikon Coolpix is not cheap.
There is an article in "Histologic" [34(2):27-32 (2001)] that will give you good ideas. 
If you go to http://www.wpiinc.com/ there is an assortment of cheap "image capturing" devices of relatively good quality at low price.
You can find image capturing devices at http://www.drinstruments.com/ for less than $100, but the images quality are wanting. 
At http://www.srb-griturn.com/ they sell camera adapters that you can use to hold a camera to the ocular tube to take photomicrographs of acceptable quality.
René J. 

From: Mikael Niku <mikael.niku <@t> helsinki.fi>
To: histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu 
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 6:59 AM
Subject: [Histonet] Cheap digital camera microscope adapters?

Hello!

I'm planning to purchase a set of digital cameras for our histology teaching laboratory, so that the students can do their histology work by taking microphotographs. Buying "real" microscope cameras would be too expensive as we need quite many (and our course microscopes don't have a camera tubus) so I'm thinking about fitting standard digital cameras in place of the eyepiece. The microscopes are good old Olympus CH2 ones and the cameras could be any affordable model.

If anyone can recommend a functional but affordable adapter, fitting to a functional but affordable consumer level digital camera, please tell!

With best regards,
Mikael Niku, PhD
University of Helsinki, Finland

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