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by dylan604 1013 days ago
what microscope are you using? i've been itching to get into microscope photography for a new hobby, but because i know myself, it'll be a fun but expensive rabbit hole. i've been deliberately putting off on researching because i also know myself and will be just as likely to be shopping than researching
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It's an Olympus BHM that I got cheaply from ebay. It's a trinocular metallurgical microscope, that I added an old SLR to, for that photo. I noticed the semi-silvered mirror seems rather scratch though, so might need to look at replacing that.
are you attaching the camera directly with an adapter, or is it projecting on to whatever lens you are using? i guess i'm coming at this thinking of it in terms of astrophotography using T-adapters to connect in place of on eyepiece vs taking an image from the eyepiece
In the trinocular port, there's an eyepiece, which I forget the magnification of afraid. And to that port I added this - https://www.alanwood.net/olympus/photomicro-adapter-l.html and then used an OM to EF mount converter, which the Canon camera directly attached to.

I've since bought a microscope imager, that provides an output over USB. But I think I need to remove the OM converter, and get a shorter adapter to successfully attach to the microscope C-Mount.

Thanks for that. I was hoping that would would be possible. I think I now know what to ask Santa for xmas!
Either works, but trust me, the trinocular part is far superior, ergonomically. You do need to know whether you want a metalurgical scope or a compound light transmission scope. The former is good at looking at opaque samples, the latter for transparent samples (biological stuff mostly).
that is something i have considered, but not known what terms to use to look it up. i would love to be able to look at opaque things in a highly magnified way, so the lighting issue is something i had in the back of mind. i do like the biological stuff in hopes of possible timelapse to show growth.
This is what I have for general opaque and transparent stereo viewing: https://www.amazon.com/AmScope-SM-4TZ-144A-Professional-Trin...

then I get this illuminator: https://www.amazon.com/AmScope-LED-6W-Powerful-Gooseneck-Ill... for top-down viewing, and it can be adjusted for bottom-up illumination.

Then you can buy samples- microscope slides, petri dishes and samples,f rom places like Carolina Biological.

You're my hero!!! I hear Santa's sleigh bells now!