Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Camera Update

After several months of patient waiting i now have a set of microscope objectives (4x, 10x, 40x and 100x oil) and an m42 to rms ring (i wanted it for a mounting platform rather than for my current camera)


 



So far i have significantly higher magnification than was ever possible with my Helios 44-2

Taken with 4x lens

Taken with 10x lens

I am having trouble with the 40x and 100x objectives though, i am quite sure that the focusing strength of the lenses are high enough that i need to position the sensor even further back. I made this assumption when i looked at the camera configurations for trinocular microscopes. So far im getting some awesome results, going even further i purchased a slide micrometer to determine the scale.

Helios 44-2
4x Objective
10x Objective


 With a bit of rough calculations it works out to 3.5 px \ 0.01mm for the Helios, 10.7 px \ 0.01mm for the 4x and 26.5 px \ 0.01mm for the 10x objective... i really want to get the 40x and 100x objectives working now.





2 comments:

  1. Could you label what the forth and fifth pictures are?

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  2. I'm not entirely sure myself they were bare unlabeled dies

    might be able to find an identifying label like on the nec 8749hd microcontroller (copy of intel MCS-48)

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