I recently scored a frankenstien Olympus BH2 microscope at auction that was probably used for wafer inspection in microchip manufacturing. After playing with it for a while, I'm now hooked and really want to use it for microphotography. On a hobby budget
It has the following hardware:
- 4 NeoSPlan IC objectives (10,20,50,100)
BH2-UMA illuminator with both brightfield and darkfield cubes, no other filters.
Motorized 4 place nose (unsure of manufacturer, it doesn't look like anything OEM)
Main microscope body looks sort of like a BH2 but not exactly
Huge (almost 1 foot of travel!) X-Y stage with a vacuum wafer chuck
Motorized Z stage
BH2-HLSH halogen lamphouse
Tilting binocular head
WK10x 20L eyepieces
- Removing the binocular head altogether and using a homemade 3D-printed adapter (tried various lengths) for the BH2-UMA's circular dovetail to attach an APS-C Canon DSLR. The picture quality is subpar, but I've also not flocked the tube.
Removing an eyepiece and using a homemade 3D-printed Canon-to-eyepiece adapter. The picture quality here was terrible with tons of chromatic abberation.
Or should I just give up on the DSLR and use an eyepiece camera?
Any input welcome!