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 instance on my Celestron 4040 I had 10X oculars and either a 2X or 4X objective. On the 4X with the oculars my photos were at 40X magnification correct? (see this new camera thing makes me question everything I used to think I knew)
So while calibrating my new setup I figured in the 20X oculars and when I thought I was almost done I realized my mistake. The oculars do not come into play with the camera, so now I have to start over.
My AmScope Microscope has the capabilities of 3.5X to 180X depending on my lens setup obviously (well until the camera I thought it was easy).
The camera has a .5 reduction attachment. Which should act what I understand a .5 Barlow does and halves my magnification. Seems simple enough, but it's so not simple, or I trashed my brain on this and can't figure out what I'm missing.
To explain AmScopes calibration the program requires I have the Zoom at 100% and the Live resolution at it's highest which is 4912 X 3684. I'm hooked up to an old laptop for these purposes. The settings like that do not allow the full image to fit the window of the screen. The real kicker is on this page https://amscope.com/pages/cameras-and-magnification AmScope claims to get the monitor magnification
.So if a camera's image-sensor has a 1/2" diagonal, and the on-screen image has a diagonal of 23", then the monitor-magnification (mm) would be 46X. This only works if the entire image produced by the camera is seen on the monitor. If only a portion of the image is viewable, then the on-screen image will have to be reduced in size until it is fully visible
So I reduced the size to fit the window like that describes. I get 11" which gets doubled (I'm not sure why) to 22". This is their equation.
So with my objective at (mo)4.5 X (mm) 22 X .5 = 495 magnification.(mo) x (mm) x (ma) = m 20 x 46 x 0.5 = 460
I have tried and tried to get this. I am fried and kind of worn out trying to wrap my head around this whole camera thing. All I want to do is have it calibrated so that I can have a scale in my photos for fossil related stuff. If you can help please give me the simplest explanation or go into great detail
I would really appreciate the help.