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Charles Krebs Photomicrography

Photomicrography

Welcome. This site was created to be a place for me to share my  passion for photomicrography -- the taking of photographs through a microscope. While I’ve been a photographer for many years, the microscope is a  relatively new tool for me. In April of 2004, thanks to an eBay auction,  I set up the first microscope I’ve used since my childhood. I have been completely hooked since that time. The arrival of digital photography, and the resources of the Internet are tremendous assets toward  learning microscopy and the techniques of photomicrography. It is an ongoing process for me. The use of some innovative software products for extended depth-of-field techniques has allowed the creation of certain types of images that could only be dreamed of  five or six years ago.

 

On this page you will find links to my photomicrography galleries. While not entirely in chronological order, I tend to add  a new one when I have gathered a sufficient number of new images. As such, the subject matter is random... whatever came across my microscope stage the previous months. The galleries are rather simple, and only in the most recent ones have I started to include subject and technical information.

 

You will also find links to my articles and pages that contain information about the particular equipment, techniques, and setup that I use. Some also go into detail on subjects I found  important and useful toward developing the understanding and skills needed for successful photomicrography. There is a huge amount of information available online. It is possible to spend days looking over just the sites on microscopy established by Nikon and Olympus. And there are innumerable other sites with this type of  valuable information. So the articles presented here do not attempt to duplicate these resources, but generally cover specific topics that are useful when using DSLR (or SLR) cameras for photomicrography.

Discusses and illustrates how I set up my microscopes initially for photomicrography with a DSLR camera.

Discusses and illustrates changes made, and the current microscope and setup I am using .

Two Basic Methods for Photomicrography                                                            (as  PDF file)
This discusses using cameras with permanently attached lenses, and those with lenses that can be removed. My interest is with DSLRs (or SLRs) so that is my emphasis. However , much very fine photomicrography is being done with digicams that have attached lenses, so the topic is included. There is quite a large amount of information on using digicams with attached lenses on the Internet.

Article describing method for making SLR  parfocal with viewing eyepieces            (as PDF file)
Article on DSLR relay optics
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Spreadsheet for DSLR relay optics
Spreadsheet for Scale-bar calculation
Information about power control of Vivitar 283 flash
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