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Anyone know how I can build a home adapter for my Reflex nikon D3400 to adapt it to a trinocular microscope iscope?

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.

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'd be kind of surprised if the intermediate image were big enough for aps-c. Do you get any vignetting on the Nikon setup?

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.

Huh, that's really cool. I wouldn't have guessed it.

Here's an example, reduced for upload, but un-cropped: