Home adapter for microscope
- ivangallego24
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Home adapter for microscope
Anyone know how I can build a home adapter for my Reflex nikon D3400 to adapt it to a trinocular microscope iscope?
Re: Home adapter for microscope
Is that really a question for whomever you bought the microscope from?
From a datasheet for what might be your microscope, you need:
AE.5130 SLR adapter with built-in 2x lens for standard 23.2 mm tube. Needs T2 adapter
AE.5025 T2 ring for Nikon D SLR digital camera
You can try to roll your own but duplicating the first item could get tedious.
From a datasheet for what might be your microscope, you need:
AE.5130 SLR adapter with built-in 2x lens for standard 23.2 mm tube. Needs T2 adapter
AE.5025 T2 ring for Nikon D SLR digital camera
You can try to roll your own but duplicating the first item could get tedious.
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- iconoclastica
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Re: Home adapter for microscope
Hi Ivan,
I made one, though for a different microscope/camea combination. But that should not matter too much, important is that when your camera is APS-C and the microscope has no colour correcting eyepieces, you can do without a relay lens, which makes everyting much simpler. My solution is described here. The wole story is:
* you need an adapter from trinoc to m42
* a variable length m42 spacer to focus
* an adapter from camera to m42
The measure where the primary image is floating and catch that on your sensor.
Wim
I made one, though for a different microscope/camea combination. But that should not matter too much, important is that when your camera is APS-C and the microscope has no colour correcting eyepieces, you can do without a relay lens, which makes everyting much simpler. My solution is described here. The wole story is:
* you need an adapter from trinoc to m42
* a variable length m42 spacer to focus
* an adapter from camera to m42
The measure where the primary image is floating and catch that on your sensor.
Wim
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Re: Home adapter for microscope
I'd be kind of surprised if the intermediate image were big enough for aps-c. Do you get any vignetting on the Nikon setup?
- iconoclastica
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Re: Home adapter for microscope
It is quite large enough though centering is critical. The height of the image is nearly identical to what I see by eye, but of course the width is 1.5x wider. I made a mistake ordering the dovetail 0.5mm too small so mine is a bit off center. I use it with Canon APS-C; I am not familiar with the Nikon program.
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Re: Home adapter for microscope
Huh, that's really cool. I wouldn't have guessed it.
- iconoclastica
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Re: Home adapter for microscope
Here's an example, reduced for upload, but un-cropped:
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