> On 17 August 2016 at 20:51 Jostein <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Multicoating could indeed be an issue. Flares could be terrible if too > much light was bouncing off the specimen mounting plate. > One site I found describes the resolution of microscope optics as fairly > uniform across brands and time, but dependent on glass technology. The > three major classes of tech are "Plan achromat", "plan fluorite" and > "plan apochromat". The apochromat seems in general to resolve twice as > fine details as do the achromat, with the fluorite in the middle. > > I suspect the microscope objectives will have the edge over camera > optics at higher magnification. > > Btw, you may want to check this (awesome stuff) out on occasion: > http://microsculpture.net/ > > He apparently use a microscope objective mounted in front of another > photographic lens.
Looks like he lights his subjects as carefully and intricately as does (did) Playboy. > > Jostein > > > Den 16.08.2016 17.28, skrev mike wilson: > >> On 15 August 2016 at 20:21 Jostein <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > >> One more in the category of tiny monsters. > >> > >> http://www.alunfoto.no/innhold/beetleface/ > >> > >> I have now worked through five of the old 4X microscope lenses Mike W. > >> brought me, and found that none of them can match the detail resolution > >> of a reversed Pentax-M 28mm f/2.8 stopped down to f/5.6. The Pentax is a > >> little soft in the contrast rendering, though, so maybe the A-series > >> edition is better. > > > > Most of those lenses will predate (in design if not manufacture) the camera > > lens > > and I don't think any of them will be multicoated. > > > >> > >> To explore further options, a Pentax-K 24mm f/3.5 has just been ordered > >> through eBay. :-) > >> > >> Interesting times. Another, more systematic study of the 10X lenses > >> coming up, but not in a couple of weeks. School has just started here, > >> and I'm busy getting to know my new students. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
