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#1 Post by Milou » Sun Nov 28, 2021 11:19 am

Hello
In order to continue the previous thread on phototubes "without" intermediate optics, but more restricted to Wil / leica phototubes, I give here information about my equipment and projects to get good (or at least better than up to now!) pictures

Up to now, I've used a Wild M7a, and now a Wild M8, with a Wild phototube (old model : 30 mm inside diameter, see picture) with a 15x normal eyepiece on top of this tube then the black metal adapter where is screwed a coolpix4500
But I've also the other larger Wild phototube (38 mm diameter )

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Sorry for bent picture, but I couldn't rotate it here :roll:

I use this equipment especially for insect dissections and for study of their genitalia (genital organs), used in taxonomy
After dissection, I put them on a slide under cover glass, for pictures used as records
These pictures are just used to exchange et classify these specimens, they are not really good ones from a photographer point of view ;) ...
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Zygaena filipendulae (a burnet moth) genitalia, taken with the M7a (stacking of about 4-5 pictures) ; there are chromatic aberrations, but with the M8 I'll make a system to translate the objective in order to limit this (but that's another topic !)


That why I would like to improve them and reading about setups without eyepieces gave me idea to also try this way wich also is very cheap comparing with Wild projectives prices :o
I've a 4/3 camera (GX80) to try taking pictures without eyepiece.

That's why I've asked more details about a Wild setup seen on the previous thread
Thank for your help....
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#2 Post by Greg Howald » Sun Nov 28, 2021 1:14 pm

1. I admit I am totally unfamiliar with your equipment.
2. The work you are doing seems truly intricate.
3. Images are very good.
4. You might improve image quality a bit by placing an iris diaphragm directly under the objectives to increase contrast. Try it. It may be the only additional thing you need to increase quality.
5. You are doing good work. Very impressive.
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#3 Post by Milou » Sun Nov 28, 2021 1:27 pm

Thank you for compliment Greg :oops:
But I wonder if an additional diaphragm under this objective would be possible, as these pictures already need a lot of light .....
Furthermore diaphragm in the phototube is already rather closed!
And at which kind of iris do you think, as M8 objective is rather large!

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#4 Post by jfiresto » Mon Nov 29, 2021 2:12 pm

It is probably easiest to mount your GX80 on your 38mm photo tube. What is Wild photo tube part number?

To mount the camera, you will need two items.

First, a 1X (optic-less) ISO 38mm to c-mount adapter. My favorite is the Leitz 543345, which Wild also sold under their name and own part number. The 543345s are not hard to buy used -- in either Europe or North America -- although you may have to patient if you want to buy one at a good price. Another possibility is a Diagnostic Instruments D10NLC, which tends to be less expensive, but seems to be a North American item. If you still need something, I have an extra that I bought pretty cheap and could sell to you at my total cost. Both parts are weighty stainless steel.

Second, you will need a c-mount to micro four thirds thread adapter. There are many possibilities, especially if you will leave the camera on the microscope. I like to do that as it reduces the dust that gets inside the microscope and how often I must clean the optics. My brother has had good luck buying cheap adapters from China.

The thread adapter must extend the c-mount flange 1.72mm into the camera to land the focused exit image on the camera sensor. Thus you want the well that the c-mount fits into, to have as large a diameter as possible so that the adapter screws all the way on. You are after a pretty flat adapter for the above ISO 38mm adapters, with a 37--38mm diameter well [no, you want more by having steps (see post #7)], or somewhat less, IIRC, for the 543345. One part that may not fully screw on is the metabones Cmount to Micro Four Thirds adapter: it has some meant-to-be-helpful finger flanges that protrude toward the c-mount and may interfere.

The c-mount will cause a little vignetting, perhaps a couple percent of the total image area, at the corners of a 4:3 aspect, micro four third sensor. I will post some images that show that, and also the deterioration you can expect, away from the center, if you remove the c-mount and image the full 38mm photo port image.

I am a bit tired from some late but fruitful work last night, and hope the above makes sense!
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#5 Post by Milou » Mon Nov 29, 2021 8:30 pm

Thank you for your detailed answer with adapter references

Yes I've seen several Leitz 543345 ones to sell but rather expensive, above 100 euros...........
For you extra Leitz 543345 you could sell, I pm you

Another solution would be to order such an adapter to somebody making itself adapters, like Rafcamera, for rather low prices and with any measurements (I've already ordered different models very well made for about 30 euros !

the c-mount to micro four thirds thread adapter seems much cheaper and there are plenty to sell and is much cheaper!

I'll check all this adapters.....

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#6 Post by Scarodactyl » Mon Nov 29, 2021 10:25 pm

I don't know if there's a readily-available m4/3 to m42 adapter, but 38mm OD to m42 threaded adapters are not hard to get.
Best of all, of course, is to have a friend with a 3d printer (or just, a 3d printer). The lens mount is a bit more annoying, but printing OD and thread adapters is really straightforward, fast and cheap.

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#7 Post by jfiresto » Tue Nov 30, 2021 12:50 pm

I think the microscopy gods have been smiling on me and perhaps making things a little easier than I deserve.

I found another c-mount to micro four thirds adapter than will not fully screw on to the Diagnostic Instruments D10NLC, the Fotodiox C-MFT. Its problem is that the wall that rings the c-mount flange, rises in a single, ca. 3mm step and hits the sloped shoulders of the D10NLC before they have had a chance to drop further away from the flange plane.

The c-mount to micro four thirds adapters I have tried, until today, try harder to accept larger diameter lenses, and have all taken a small intermediate step that gives enough slope to clear the sloped shoulders of the D10NLC, as in this example:

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EDIT: Phooey. I just received and tried a similar looking adapter from China that unfortunately stops ca. 1mm short of fulling spinning down on a D10NLC. I will add to an order, another style that looks like one of the adapters I have that does fully spin down.
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#8 Post by Milou » Tue Nov 30, 2021 1:51 pm

Scarodactyl wrote:
Mon Nov 29, 2021 10:25 pm
I don't know if there's a readily-available m4/3 to m42 adapter, but 38mm OD to m42 threaded adapters are not hard to get.
Best of all, of course, is to have a friend with a 3d printer (or just, a 3d printer). The lens mount is a bit more annoying, but printing OD and thread adapters is really straightforward, fast and cheap.
I think m4/3 to m42 adapters are not flat but rather large, at least all ones I've seen and therefore camera would be too high on the tube....But perhaps flat ones could be found!
But you're right, perhaps with 38 mm one, it could be better to avoid the very small diameter of the c-mount !

Thank you John for details about the c-mount- 4/3 adapter and their size limits/ constraints with the other bottom adapter

Perhaps therefore, to order a special adapter with right "shoulders" and screw length, and also even another screw diameter (38 mm? if it possible to get a 38 mm-4/3 one adapter!) could be the best solution?

Another solution could be to get a simple 4/3 adapter with a flat side and then to fix it on top of 2 sliding tubes (plastic or metal), the exterior one being just inserted in the Wild phototube. Then the inside one could be adjusted at a correct high for picture .....

For them who have no 3D printer........

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#9 Post by jfiresto » Mon Dec 13, 2021 5:12 pm

I found another micro four thirds to c-mount adapter that fully spins on to a D10NLC 38mm ISO camera port adapter, the Quenox C-m4/3:
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Its two 1.5–1.6mm steps at r=18.9 and r=20mm are both crucial: deleting either – which thankfully Quenox did not do – would save money but also crash the adapter against the sloped shoulder of the D10NLC. The rim of the Quenox adapter starts at r=25mm and clears the D10NLC by 0.8mm.

I measured 9.6mm from the camera flange to the ISO port flange when the micro four thirds adapter is on the D10NLC. A drawing for Nikon's adapter from this thread places the ISO port image 28.996mm above the flange:
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28.996 - 9.6mm puts the image 19.4mm above the camera flange and slightly past the 19.25mm micro four thirds flange focal distance. I expect the two combined adapters will be parafocal, but will confirm that.
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#10 Post by Milou » Mon Dec 13, 2021 7:05 pm

Thank you John for details about your adapters.

But has your D10NLC the same measurements as the Nikon one (Nikon flange out is 15.5mm according to the scheme)?

In fact it would be necessary to have a 0.15 mm shorter flange out in order to get exactly the 19.25mm micro four thirds flange focal distance!
Therefore an adapter (more or less similar to your D10NLC) with a 14.85 mm flange out would do with your C-M4/3

I'll try to order an adapter for T2 instead of a c-mount like the D10NLC, to put in the Wild phototube and above an adapter T2 - M4/3
I've only to determine the best T2 screw height according to the one of a rather thin T2 - M4/3 adapter in order to get this 19.25mm micro four thirds flange focal distance!

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#11 Post by jfiresto » Tue Dec 14, 2021 7:16 pm

Hi Michel. I am still trying to understand how the 38mm ISO port -> T2, T2 -> µ4/3rds pair is supposed to work. A T-mount is supposed to have a 55mm flange focal distance. If I make no mistake, the first adapter will need a relay lens because the ISO port has 26mm shorter focal distance. Would a good lens be expensive?

I am pretty sure the D10NLC + Quenox combination will be parfocal. As the Quenox adapter was only 9 euros, do you want to try both ways, or hold the D10NLC+Quenox in reserve as a Plan B?
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#12 Post by Milou » Tue Dec 14, 2021 7:35 pm

Hi John,

I'm not very brilliant at optics :)
Therefore I wasn't aware about this large difference in flange focal distances between C_mount and a T2 one......

I ned to study this more deeply to go on with larger mounts than the C one!

Ok therefore thank's for your D10NLC+Quenox as It will already allow me to try this setup :)
I pm you about that

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#13 Post by Scarodactyl » Wed Dec 15, 2021 12:37 am

T2 is a theead standard, m42x0.75. Mechanical adapters are available to attach it to most camera mounts without any compensation for flange focal istance, on the assumption that you are using it to retrofit older optics or with whatever length extension tubes you want. I didn't see any for m4/3 in this style though in my brief search.

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#14 Post by Milou » Thu Dec 16, 2021 11:53 am

Thank's for your comment about T2 Scarodactyl.

Yes this T2 - M4/3 adapter is not common, but I've at least found one which is rather thin:
https://www.ebay.fr/itm/384184564749

Generally they have more or less 2.5 cm height, therefore not very adapted for use on top of a phototube
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#15 Post by jfiresto » Mon Dec 20, 2021 2:28 pm

This is getting silly. I finally had a chance to try the above D10NLC and Quenox adapter combination, I wrote about earlier, with a micro four thirds camera. Specifically, I tried the following stackup:
  • A Wild M7S in macroscope mode
  • A Wild 180570 photo tube
  • A D10NLC, ISO 38 to c-mount adapter
  • A Quenox C-M4/3, c-mount to micro four thirds adapter
  • A Panasonic DMC-GX85 (GX80).
The camera, just like that, was nearly parfocal. So, I slightly raised and reclamped the D10NLC to make it so, and measured the gap: slightly more than 0.15mm - the shimming I had measured and calculated above. Either the microscopy gods continue to smile on me, or old Wild microscopes just work.

Here are a pair of images at minimum and maximum zoom (0.6X and 3.1X). You can click on an image to fetch the full-sized, 4–5 Mbyte JPEG.

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I may have lightly bumped the target between exposures.

Ohhhh, yes. I see much less vignetting.
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#16 Post by Milou » Thu Dec 23, 2021 12:10 pm

Hello John,

Thank you for your pictures and details about your setup.
In fact the result is very good indeed!

If furthermore almost no more vignetting, it's really great......

Hope to also try this setup (when you tell me about sending your item !) :-)

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#17 Post by Milou » Sun Jan 09, 2022 12:51 pm

at least I could try the setup with D10NLC and Quenox adapter combination, already presented by John (thank's again ;) ).

To compare with my previous setup, I put 2 Wild photo tubes on my M8 like this :
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Sorry I couldn't put it upright!

Here pictures from this first test made with a Coolpîx4500 (with olympus eyepiece 15x) and a GX80 body, without any eyepiece in its photo tube


GX80 pictures are made with electronic shutter, 10' timer to avoid vibrations, at 1/60' and the Wild tube shutter around 3 or 4 (between half ans 2/3 closed)
Lighting is diascopic (LED under the mobile stage) and episcopic (KL1500), sometimes also an Olympus halogen ring light was used (but its light colour is rather yellow)
Focal is put in the GX80 menu to 35 mm (no yet test other ones...)

Probably lighting and GX80 parameters could be still improved, especially water balance (not yet tried all settings to adjust white!)
M8 magnification is higher for GX80 pictures than with Coolpix ones

GX80 pictures:
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Adscita statices(Linnaeus, 1758) (Zygaenidae) female genitalia just put on a slide in water (no cover slide).
The diagnostic element for this species is: a ductus bursa (canal between bilobate female genital chambe and copulatory orifice) not smooth but with protuberances

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The same slide with higher M8 magnification (sorry no scale put in pictures!)


Coolpix same slide pictures:
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The same slide with higher M8 magnification (sorry no scale put in the picture!)
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Comparing these pictures in full size shows a higher resolution for GX80 ones
But for coolpix ones, it must be said that focusing is rather hard as its screen is very small and with a low definition....

But at least it's shown here quite good results for GX80 pictures with "old" binocular microscopes and a very low cost setup (without outrageous costly photo eyepiece and lot of different tubes, as for reflex cameras!)

Sure, pictures with a much higher resolution and/or esthetic qualities could be done, but using other equipments (macroscope, microscope aso.) :mrgreen:

But for archives photos made after dissections and entomological microscopic preparations, it's well adapted for me ;)

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#18 Post by Milou » Mon Jan 10, 2022 3:46 pm

In fact vignette for GX80 pictures results from Wild tubes stacking (see upper setup picture) and also I've forgotten to open again coolpix tube diaphragm when using the GX80 one :mrgreen:

Below other shots of a small coin, this time just with one Wild Tube and the GX80 :
At lowest, medium and highest magnification (50x) and with closed Wild tube diaphragm (1)
Lighting with just 2 lateral KL150 halogen lights (speed between 1/10' and 1/100' and 400 and 800 iso)
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Almost no more vignetting here, comparing with upper genitalia pictures.....

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#19 Post by Scarodactyl » Mon Jan 10, 2022 8:00 pm

There really should not be any vignetting at this field number, but that is definitely an improvement.

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#20 Post by sreynolds » Sun Sep 25, 2022 2:47 pm

I setup my M7A with the Diagnostic Instruments D10NLC to connect to a Canon mirrorless (M200) camera using a Fotodiox C-Mount to EOS-M adapter. I found I needed to add a spacer underneath the D10NLC to get parfocal image between eyepieces (16x/16) and the camera. My spacer is 0.330" tall, made out of brass plumbing waste pipe, which is less than 38mm ID, so I just slotted the pipe to let it expand to fit the D10NLC - it fits into the recess on top of the phototube and stays there. I found that the Fotodiox adapter just barely accommodates the D10 as to the shoulder recess problem mentioned with the micro 4/3 cameras in this post. Determining required spacer size holding adapter in place with tube clamp screw
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#21 Post by sreynolds » Mon Dec 12, 2022 2:46 pm

I've now tried 2 mirrorless cameras with the Wild M7A/phototube direct projection method - an APS-C (Canon M200) and a micro 4/3 (Olympus Pen E-PL7) - and would like to post some pictures.

In order to test the Micro 4/3, I had to spend some thought re. the C-mount to M 4/3 adapter 'spin down' problem mentioned above -
jfiresto wrote:
Mon Nov 29, 2021 2:12 pm
you want the well that the c-mount fits into, to have as large a diameter as possible so that the adapter screws all the way on.
I came to the conclusion that whether the adapter seated fully or not was moot when using something like the D10NCL that has no optics - final focusing is done on the camera screen anyway. I didn't get stuck at the point of looking for an adapter I could not find, or trying to make one, but just ordered a generic one from China.

Results of testing with both cameras showed the improvement I hoped to achieve with the M 4/3 vs the APS-C. Even though the Canon has 24 megapixels compared to the Pen E at 16, the crops on the M 4/3 are sharper, and the vignetting of the APS-C is largely eliminated. Subject is a portion of a dollar bill. Microscope zoom at about 15.
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#22 Post by jfiresto » Mon Dec 12, 2022 3:33 pm

sreynolds wrote:
Mon Dec 12, 2022 2:46 pm
... I came to the conclusion that whether the adapter seated fully or not was moot when using something like the D10NCL that has no optics - final focusing is done on the camera screen anyway. I didn't get stuck at the point of looking for an adapter I could not find, or trying to make one, but just ordered a generic one from China....
I found a couple advantages of getting the adapter spun all the way down to make all the trinocular tubes parfocal. It avoids the vignetting from the sensor being above the designed focal distance, and it lets me focus the camera just looking through the eyepieces. That is, when I wear glasses that correct my vision to infinity. I use the camera screen, with focus peaking, when I wear 1.5 diopter (d=66.7cm) computer glasses.
... Results of testing with both cameras showed the improvement I hoped to achieve with the M 4/3 vs the APS-C. Even though the Canon has 24 megapixels compared to the Pen E at 16, the crops on the M 4/3 are sharper, and the vignetting of the APS-C is largely eliminated. Subject is a portion of a dollar bill. Microscope zoom at about 15.
Olympus applied a very competent, low pass filter to their earlier models. Their JPEG compression is also quite good. After turning on anti-shock (EFCS), I was amazed to see detail down to the pixel level, even with an E-PL1 and its old, camera kicking shutter.
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#23 Post by jfiresto » Mon Dec 12, 2022 7:59 pm

Just a thought. The flange focal distance of the Canon EF-M mount is only 18mm vs. 19.25 for MFT. Could the less sharp images and (extra?) strong vignetting of the M200 indicate the 0.330-inch spacer places its image sensor some distance above a C-mount's usual image plane?
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#24 Post by sreynolds » Mon Dec 12, 2022 10:58 pm

jfiresto wrote:
Mon Dec 12, 2022 7:59 pm
Could the less sharp images and (extra?) strong vignetting of the M200 indicate the 0.330-inch spacer places its image sensor some distance above a C-mount's usual image plane?
I admit to incomplete understanding of the optics involved, but I am using the same .330 spacer with both the Canon and the Pen: that is, I don't understand why I need that spacer at all, except that there may be something with my particular scope that is out of the ordinary. Specifically, I cannot obtain parfocal imaging throughout the zoom range. Going from minimum zoom (.6) to maximun (3.1) I have to adjust focus up/away from the subject by something like 1/2". My camera images are closely parfocal with the eyepiece images throughout the zoom range, so it is not an issue with the eyepieces I have. Since I can get good images at all zoom levels, with the extra focusing involved, I am satisfied with my results so far.
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#25 Post by Scarodactyl » Tue Dec 13, 2022 1:30 am

That's way out of wack. What eyepieces are you using? It's possible to get the camera parfocal with almost all incorrect eyepieces since pretty much all third party ones will be positioned too far up without modification.
Edit: yeah squinting closely looks like hmthird party 10x/23s? Those will definitely sit too high.

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#26 Post by sreynolds » Tue Dec 13, 2022 2:56 am

jfiresto wrote:
Mon Dec 12, 2022 7:59 pm
the 0.330-inch spacer places its image sensor some distance above a C-mount's usual image plane
Scarodactyl wrote:
Tue Dec 13, 2022 1:30 am
It's possible to get the camera parfocal with almost all incorrect eyepieces
I have to get excited about this. You've nailed it. My oculars are Zeiss Pl 16x/16 high eyepoint, which are nice, but put the parfocal zoom off. To compensate for that, (now I understand)I added the .330 spacer to get the camera parfocal with the oculars - and that works but with the complications I reported. Are a pair of Zeiss W-PL 10X/23 appropriate? I can't afford the Wild 10x/21B, and I don't have a 3D printer or the experience to mix-n-match Asian copies.

Edit : I tested both cameras with the spacer removed - the Canon is almost exactly parfocal throughout the zoom range now (i.e. a very small fraction of a turn on the focusing knob going from low-hi-low magnification) and the Olympus takes a little more adjustment, which goes along with the fact that the C-mount to M4/3 adapter I have does not spin down all the way. I will confirm zoom parfocality with the eyepieces when I receive the 10x/23 Zeiss I ordered.

Edit 2: I received the 10x/23 oculars and they do give parfocal images throughout the zoom range (plus amazing depth of field). My camera is also now parfocal with the eyepieces without the spacer I previously needed with the 16x oculars (with the caveats mentioned above). I don't really understand yet how the 16x's or camera could focus since they pick up the intermediate image plane at a point higher than 'normal' - apparently moving the focus moves the intermediate image plane, and I have to study on than.
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#27 Post by jfiresto » Tue Dec 13, 2022 8:54 am

sreynolds wrote:
Tue Dec 13, 2022 2:56 am
... Are a pair of Zeiss W-PL 10X/23 appropriate?...
They work for me when contracted to their limits.
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Re: Wild phototubes and their use with/ without eyepiece

#28 Post by sreynolds » Wed Feb 22, 2023 12:40 am

jfiresto wrote:
Mon Dec 13, 2021 5:12 pm
I found another micro four thirds to c-mount adapter that fully spins on to a D10NLC 38mm ISO camera port adapter, the Quenox C-m4/3
I can add that the Vello C-mount to Micro 4/3 adapter also spins down fully - Available here and other places. I could not find the Quenox adapter anywhere outside Germany. With the Vello adapter and the D10NLC (or equivalent) the camera is exactly parfocal with the eyepieces.
Steve

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Re: Wild phototubes and their use with/ without eyepiece

#29 Post by jfiresto » Wed Feb 22, 2023 9:31 am

That could be a Quenox part, rebranded as Vello, by the New York City importer, and retailed by B&H Photo, the only source Google and Vello will find for my queries out of Germany. I traced Quenox to China a couple years ago, but am not finding them at the moment. I mention this in case both adapters are from the same factory: the machining of the Quenox adapter is o.k. but not stellar.
-John

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