Digital photomicroscopy

[ffutures]

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.

Comments

Re: Finepix quality

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

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

[elementalv.livejournal.com]

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

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

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