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Tabatha

I don't operate the microscope in our museum, but I am a microscope and
camera enthusiast and have taken lots of photos and videos through my
scope. You can actually take an awesome photo simply by holding a camera up
to the eyepiece, so that's all your mount really needs to do. Mine is made
of cardboard and works just fine, and the image I can get with a point and
shoot is of much higher quality than our scope on a rope. If your funding
limited I would recommend prioritizing finding a camera that can tether to
your projector in real time and not worrying about the mount, as you could
make a pretty robust one with just an hour or two in the wood shop, or by
setting the camera up on a tripod. That's just my 2 cents. Hope it helps.

~Aiona Bones

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Tabatha Yang <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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>  Hello everyone,
>
> We have a Zeiss Stemi DV4 microscope. We would like to be able to project
>  images onto a screen so that visiting groups, classes and even assembly
> programs can see what is under the microscope. We have a projector. We are
> just lacking the
> the right camera or video camera/laptop configuration. Do any of you
> currently operate this sort of piecemeal  set-up and have recommendations?
> Is it better to go with a microscope specific camera or are their great
> adaptations using regular cameras. There will always be someone from the
> museum operating it, so we don't need to worry about visitor use/abuse as
> much. I know there are complete products like scope-on-a-rope, but we want
> to adapt the materials we already have.
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide.
> -Tabatha
>
>
> On 2/3/2012 5:54 PM, Eric Siegel wrote:
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