He is rather cute - sort of looks like a vacuum cleaner bag with legs. Microscope photography would be a fascinating thing to do.
It is fun to do, but due to the crazy narrow DOF of the objectives, focus stacking using an automated stage is almost a given to get decent images....The only exception is very flat objects.
He is rather cute - sort of looks like a vacuum cleaner bag with legs. Microscope photography would be a fascinating thing to do.
It is fun to do, but due to the crazy narrow DOF of the objectives, focus stacking using an automated stage is almost a given to get decent images....The only exception is very flat objects.
He is rather cute - sort of looks like a vacuum cleaner bag with legs. Microscope photography would be a fascinating thing to do.
It is fun to do, but due to the crazy narrow DOF of the objectives, focus stacking using an automated stage is almost a given to get decent images....The only exception is very flat objects.
He is rather cute - sort of looks like a vacuum cleaner bag with legs. Microscope photography would be a fascinating thing to do.
It is fun to do, but due to the crazy narrow DOF of the objectives, focus stacking using an automated stage is almost a given to get decent images....The only exception is very flat objects.
It is worth noting here that a P&S is often superior to a DSLR in this respect.
He is rather cute - sort of looks like a vacuum cleaner bag with legs. Microscope photography would be a fascinating thing to do.
It is fun to do, but due to the crazy narrow DOF of the objectives, focus stacking using an automated stage is almost a given to get decent images....The only exception is very flat objects.
It is worth noting here that a P&S is often superior to a DSLR in this respect.
Most of the scopes we use have specialized CCD cameras that are built specifically for the scopes themselves...and as Cory points out below...the sensor size of those cameras is very small to help increase DOF.
He is rather cute - sort of looks like a vacuum cleaner bag with legs. Microscope photography would be a fascinating thing to do.
It is fun to do, but due to the crazy narrow DOF of the objectives, focus stacking using an automated stage is almost a given to get decent images....The only exception is very flat objects.
It is worth noting here that a P&S is often superior to a DSLR in this respect.
Most of the scopes we use have specialized CCD cameras that are built specifically for the scopes themselves...
The smaller the sensor, the greater the DOF (at least in theory)...
In practice, diffraction-limited DoF dominates. It is dependent only on lambda (wavelength of light), n (refractive index of medium between objective and subject, air = 1.0) and NA, the numerical aperture of the objective. If you're unfamiliar with numerical aperture, it's basically the relationship between the size of the front element and the distance to the subject. Bigger element and/or shorter working distance = higher NA.
ETA: The Tardigrade image loks like a colorized SEM image. A SEM, for those unfamiliar, is a Scanning Electron Microscope. It has very great depth of field and resolution far beyond optical microscopes.
ETA: The Tardigrade image loks like a colorized SEM image. A SEM, for those unfamiliar, is a Scanning Electron Microscope. It has very great depth of field and resolution far beyond optical microscopes.
All that power and it doesn't shoot in color...???????
Amongst all the very cool stuff that Dan Winters has done, he did some honey bee photos [url=//danwintersphoto.com/#/H O N E Y B E E S/Overview_HB/1/caption]//danwintersphoto.com/#/H O N E Y B E E S/Overview_HB/1/caption[/url] with an SEM. They don't reproduce all that well on the website- they're much better in his book.
ETA: Also, tardigrades are awesome and provide some interesting reading. Here's a brief bit inDiscover Magazine
ETA2: I don't know why that first one won't parse... it's the right url.
