Easy electronic flash adapter for photomicrography...

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Easy electronic flash adapter for photomicrography...

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Hi y'all :D

If any of you haven't taken advantage of using electronic flash for photomicrography you are missing the next best thing to sliced bread :!: :D 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. :D

You can read the article HERE.

Best regards to all as always :!: :D
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Hi Tom... I can take no credit at all for KenV's simple, effective design. It's was all his doing! Way to go Ken :D
(I just helped him out with the power control for the Vivitar 283)

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Oops :!: Sorry KenV :oops:

Hi y'all :D

I borrowed the design from KenV for a simple flash adapter... :D
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Post by gpmatthews »

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
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Hi Tom, a nice article M8t, however I can take no credit for the beam splitter - I borrowed the idea from Steve West, so its all thanks to Steve!
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It just goes to show you that good ideas make all the rounds :!: :D :!:
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Post by lacerta »

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.
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