Could you please advise is it a good idea to buy DSLR to eyepiece adapter? Something like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Metal-Bayonet- ... 3135869781
Of course it'll be necessary to use a tripod
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hi chas,Chas wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 3:59 pmHi, I am new here too
But I have an EOS APSC dslr; I have tried 4 different sorts of adapter: I started with a generic 'NDPL-2' and then purchased a more expensive one from Amscope, which was quite a bit better than the first [even though it just said NDPL-2 on the side (No 'Amscope' label or anything)] I then wanted a lower magnification/wider field of view adapter and came across a 'Luxan' brand on ebay and because the of the postage I bought two sorts of theirs ..one with an internal iris and one with just a single lens, like the one in your picture. It might be my bad luck but the one with the iris was a complete waste of time.
The single lens one is 1/2 ok but it gives a red colour to the left of the pics and the images show spherical aberation ( however when you need that extra bit of width, you need it!).
I then got one of the lensless adapters, when I first used it it gave a really foggy photos, however I rolled some 2mm thick black foam sheet (it was called 'eva foam') and put it in the tube and the image was great, the foam causes some vignetting but need not go all the way to the camera mount face. (The foam also comes in 1mm thick which might be better) it now has some telecope flocking in it, just because it 'sounded better'.
I now only use the lens-less camera adapter, but my camera has a tilting backscreen which I focus with, I have a monocular microscope, and as I photograph unmounted/unsectioned objects I end up focus-stacking many photos and the dust that can get on the adapter's lenses make annoying long black streaks when the pics are stacked.
Also, I am not bothered by parfocality and stuff like that.
hey chas thanks for the adviceChas wrote: ↑Sun Jan 31, 2021 7:50 pmbonif, well doneYou may already have some way of taking the photos without having to press the button on the camera body?? -If your camera has a socket on the side for it; a ' Remote Shutter Release Switch Control' (as they are called on ebay ) is a very nice thing. On my camera it is underneath the rubber flap that says "MIC" on it.
I have found the very cheapest ones work ok.
Chas
(Dont forget to put something in the adapter-tube ; the 'roughness' of the material seems to be more important than its 'blackness' ).