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Macro photography

2003-07-02 by Leon Heller

The macro facility on my digital camera (Fuji 2400Zoom) only lets me go down
to 10 cm. I thought I'd experiment with a cheap 14x magnifier held in front
of the lens - it worked quite well, although it was difficult to avoid
camera shake with the two held together. With a more stable mechanical
arrangement it should be quite useful for showing fine detail.

See an example in the Photos area on the Group website, in 'Leon's' album.

I used the low-resolution setting on the camera.

Leon
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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Macro photography

2003-07-02 by Stefan Trethan

looks funny....
a lot of "tunnel view"

i achieved good results with pointing my webcam into the microscope.
i used it very close to the eyepiece and adjusted focus on camera.
but i modified it to get a greater focus range...


but it is a bad camera so image quality is bad.

maybe this helps.



st

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 11:03:59 +0100, Leon Heller <leon_heller@...>
wrote:

> The macro facility on my digital camera (Fuji 2400Zoom) only lets me go
> down
> to 10 cm. I thought I'd experiment with a cheap 14x magnifier held in
> front
> of the lens - it worked quite well, although it was difficult to avoid
> camera shake with the two held together. With a more stable mechanical
> arrangement it should be quite useful for showing fine detail.
>
> See an example in the Photos area on the Group website, in 'Leon's'
> album.
>
> I used the low-resolution setting on the camera.
>
> Leon
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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Macro photography

2003-07-02 by Stefan Trethan

thanks... good to know that...

experiment some more, i got unexpected good results with the
microscopescope/webcam setup.
but the damn cam has a too poor image quality (low res. and much
disturbance).

i also tried some field glasses, aimed the webcam through one eyepiece..
worked like the microscope.
i think the camera i have has some "human eye like" characteristics (size,
focus etc.) thus working that fine on other optics.

st


On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 15:20:56 +0100, Leon Heller <leon_heller@...>
wrote:

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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stefan Trethan"
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>> looks funny....
>> a lot of "tunnel view"
>
> 'Tunnel vision' in English. 8-)
>
> That's the magnifier - it's smaller than the camera lens.
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Re: Macro photography

2003-07-11 by c_kurz

> experiment some more, i got unexpected good results with the
> microscopescope/webcam setup.
> but the damn cam has a too poor image quality (low res. and much
> disturbance).

A medium quality 600/1200 dpi scanner with transparency option is
good for film analysis/demonstration.

- Carsten