Digital photomicroscopy

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I'm now using a digital camera (currently a FujiFilm Finepix 2800) for nearly everything I formerly did with 35mm. The sole exception is photomicroscopy; don't do it very often, in fact I haven't needed to do it since I went digital, but so far I have no good way to get a photo from a microscope except by scanning a print.

Needless to say I can't afford a digital with interchangeable lenses, which would probably have a proper microscope adapter available, so I suspect that I may have to think about some sort of add-on adapter going in front of the zoom. This is usually the recipe for crappy results, so if anyone has any better ideas (other than modifying a webcam or something, which would be too low definition to be useful) I'd be grateful for your comments.

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Re: Finepix quality

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The wall is light blue, should have said.

The fireplace is one of the nicer features of this flat; it's Victorian or a good replica, the house is certainly old enough for it. Also have a (very nasty 1950s design) fireplace in this room, and another small Victorian fireplace in the bathroom. There's one in the kitchen too, it was boxed in behind a kitchen unit before I moved in but I have the grate etc. in the attic.

Re: Finepix quality

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In far too many instances, "1950s design" automatically equates with "nasty". It's a shame really, because there were a few interesting things to come out of that era.

Thanks for letting me know that the blue of the wall photos was actually true to life as opposed to true to the camera's conception of what it saw.

Re: Finepix quality

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I'm pretty sure it was put in during the 1950s, I had an aunt and uncle who were living here at that point and had that sort of taste. It's made of cream ceramic tiles with a sort of mock art-deco look that mixes three or four styles badly. At some point it was painted white, and actually looks a little less hideous that way. If I was actually using it as a fireplace I'd want to have it ripped out and something either more in period or more modern but better designed put in; since I'm not I just live with it.

Re: Decorating oddities

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So, tell me — did England ever go through a phase where women knitted these horrible dresses for kewpie dolls, then used the dressed doll to cover the spare roll of toilet tissue in the loo?

It was a big thing in my family, especially with my Great Aunt Leitha (she was the one who ran away with the knife thrower in Ringling Bros. Circus back in the 20s). I remember the doll used to look like she was wearing a massive hoop skirt.

Re: Decorating oddities

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I think I've seen dolls like that but I don't think they were ever popular.