Hi y'all
If any of you haven't taken advantage of using electronic flash for photomicrography you are missing the next best thing to sliced bread I just posted an article on my website as to how I constructed a flash adapter for my Zeiss GFL microscope. I based the adapter on a design Charles Krebs made for KenV (Thanks Charlie ). It is so simple there's no excuse for not using electronic flash when chasing down the speeding ciliates.
You can read the article HERE.
Best regards to all as always
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Nice article,Tom. The setup is similar in principle to mine, the big difference being that I use the within-camera flash of the Canon Powershot S50. The light is taken to the substage mirror by means of a fibre-optic cable. I am now using my Mk IIa setup and have updated my web page accordingly. See http://www.gpmatthews.nildram.co.uk/mic ... setup.html
Graham
Great article Tom. I wondered how it was done. The piece of glass at 45 degrees is such a simple and elegant solution. I hope to eventually shoot through the eyepiece with a high-resolution camera and use a hot-shoe adaptor with cable to remote the flash down below. You saved me alot of head-scratching. Thanks for time and effort for a well-written, easy-to-understand article.
George
George