Images from LabCam and LabCam Pro

[AntoniScott]

Attached are several images form the LabCam IPhone adapter. Compare image 6
(taken with LabCam) to Image TS (taken with $1150 Excelis). All others taken with LabCam Pro.

[david_b]

Well the LabCam result looks poor, but all of these images are heavily compressed, are you able to post the full size images?
Which iPhone was used?

[Hobbyst46]

I refer only to images of (as far as I can guess) a thin flat specimen, like the two top images, of a reddish-purple stained cell tissue. Those should be coast-to-coast in focus. However, in my opinion, sharpness is fair in the middle and less so in the periphery; that could result from the camera adapter and lens;
BUT, moreover, sharpness is not uniform: the right side is less sharp than the left side. This is more prominent in the "LabCam Pro" image.
Maybe the iphone camera is not perpendicular to the optical axis, because the adapter does not provide exact placement of the phone camera parallel to the eyepiece front lens.

[AntoniScott]

I have not had good results with my microphotography attempts. Image quality is fairly poor all around. I have a Nikon D5500 (I think it has a 2/3 sensor) with 24megapixels and the proper c-mount adapter which takes poor images. The LabCam with my IPhone (12+) with 16MP takes better overall images, still not to my standards. I did break down and buy an 8MP microscope camera from China that has its own memory card installed. Although it sometimes takes better pictures, it is not always the case. My microscope is an Olympus BH2 with the trinocular head. I even tried the 20MP camera with the 1" sensor but the image quality was about the same. Very frustrating.
I have seen digital microscope cameras from makers like Olympus that are in the $4000 to $5000 range but I refuse to spend such an outrageous amount of money on such a camera to just gain a small improvement in image quailty.
One interesting thing I noticed was how good some of the old 35mm film images were. I guess that 35mm negative captured a lot of detain compared to the tiny sensors they are selling today.

Housefly mouthparts

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[Scarodactyl]

Do you mean one of the Nikon digital sight/DS series cameras, rather than a ds5500 (which I think is a dslr)?
I had a nikon ds2 5mp camera mounted on a stereo microscope for a bit. It waan't bad but didn't give results as good as my canon t6. Generally dslr/mirrorless cameras will give better results than dedicated microscope cameras in terms of image quality, though they may not be as easy to use for analytical purposes.