When I got my microscope, I foolishly decided to get a stereo binocular unit instead of a trinocular unit which has a third "eyepiece" for a camera to be mounted to. For most usage this isn't a big deal as I'm only using my own two eyes to look through the microscope, but I've found that occasionally I'll want to shoot a photo or video of something I'm looking at up close, and the lack of a camera mount puts me in an awkward position.
I thought about trying to find some sort of adapter to be able to mount a smartphone to look through a microscope eyepiece, but the fact is that the market for people who bought a microscope but need a camera feed and didn't get a trinocular is pretty small and not worth serving.
On the other hand, the market for people who bought a telescope and want to take pictures through it with their smartphone is much, much larger.
And wouldn't you know it, but the eyepieces are, externally at least, pretty much identical between telescopes and microscopes. The field of view isn't really amazing mind you, so I have to zoom in a bit to avoid the circular cropping, but all told it's pretty easy to set up and yields some perfectly usable images.
It's certainly worth the $20 I spent on it.
No comments:
Post a Comment