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I finally solved this to my satisfaction. I'm irritating like that in that if I get stuck on something it drives me crazy until I can solve it at least to some degree. As I had thought I was over thinking it, and in doing so having trouble relaying to others my exact needs to solve the question. Com...

Lee Creek formation, Miocene 23.0 - 5.3 MYO.
Sponge Spicule.


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Microscope magnification can be confusing, but digital photography has made things a whole lot easier. Take a picture of your micrometer calibration slide using the same setup (objective, ocular (if used), reduction lens (if used) and camera) that you use for your sample. Then use the set scale opt...

Personally I would break out the micrometer slide for each individual objective lens, measure the field, with your setup, and use that as a basis for a scale to be included in images. Magnification gets a bit abstract after the image is picked up by the camera sensor, and you would still want to kn...

I think the zoom of the program is what would normally be my ocular. So at 10% zoom in the program .5 with the camera and at 1X objective I should have a true magnification of 5X if I'm doing the math correctly. Z x O x C = M Z=10 O=1 C=.5 10 x 1 x .5 + 5 Does that sound right to you? Sorry the miss...

No it's not that. I was right in that I've really gotten into my own head over this. I don't want to know the magnification on the screen in the sense of how big it is on my screen. I'm looking to label my scale size of say 1mm at different magnifications. I think I've needed to write this down and ...

Ok wait. I think viewing on the screen is part of my problem in getting this. If the camera is .5X and I'm set at 1X with my objective that means I'm at .5X magnification. Right? Now say I add a .5X Barlow. Would that halve it again to .25 magnification or work with the camera and give me a 1X magni...

They're just saying that if you got a.bigger.monitor you got a.bigger picture. They multiply by 2 in the example because the sensor diagonal is 1/2". Listen if you want to have a scale for your photos you want to use a.micrometer slide and figure it out directly. I have one. That's what I mean by I...

This is my first camera set up so I have a ton to learn. And I'm either an idiot or I've gotten into my own head and caused a confusion that needs repaired. I am used to taking photos with my phone through an ocular of other scopes so that the image I take a photo of is the true magnification. For i...

I just purchased an AmScope microscope that comes with this camera. This is my first microscope camera setup. The camera is where I'm having my most questions and headaches from. The images I see on the old laptop I use are great. The issue I'm having is calibration. That's the thing I can't find th...

I have been using microscopes for several years now to prep fossils with air abrasion and air scribe with one and sort through micro material and viewing details with another. I use a B&L Stereozoom 4 for the prep work in my cabinet. The one I used for the longest to search the micro material and vi...