Vintage microscopes and the M42 thread as a universal helper (IV)
We are going to continue our series about simple, M42 thread based microscope
camera adaptations.
From a statistical point of the typical microscopist becomes older and older.
And it might happen one day that his wife is selling his microscope ...
Thus used instruments and still perfectly usable microscopes appear at internet auctions,
sometimes for bargain prices. With a bit of luck and a glance at the sellers' feedback
internet microscope buying isn't that risky. And, as well as in normal photography,
you do not necessarily need the most expensive microscope apo objectives in order to achieve
good photographic results. Besides, imaging software can help a lot to
pimp your images.
This line of thought might lead some of you to monocular microscopes and as a consequence
to a truly minimalistic number of glass lenses in your system.
Let's have a look at one of those monoculae microcopes, namely an ENURO:
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