I've never gone down the microscope route, interesting. I like the shot, composition/framing, I think more lighting would bring out the detail a bit more, the focal plane is in there judging by the foreground & background, perhaps the microscope can't quite grab enough detail, not sure as never used one.
I started by doing hand held single shots with a magnifying glass taped to the end of the hood of a normal lens, then got hold of a macro lens. without a doubt, the best results come from multiple shots, stacked together. This means moving the camera setup through a horizontal plane, might only be a millimetre in total, but a hundred increments & a shot each time, then stack the hundred shots together.
I first platform for moving the camera was a ceramic tile cutter. I bolted the camera to the assembly that slides on the 2 rails, which gave me a fairly steady horizontal movement, still had to move manually by slightly nudging it with my finger, but it worked, I then made my own sliding platform with a micrometre attached for better control.
I you fancy having a go with stacking, sliding platform etc I'll assist if I can, I'm far from an expert but I experiment & persevere, keeps me out of mischief.
I've never gone down the microscope route, interesting. I like the shot, composition/framing, I think more lighting would bring out the detail a bit more, the focal plane is in there judging by the foreground & background, perhaps the microscope can't quite grab enough detail, not sure as never used one.
I started by doing hand held single shots with a magnifying glass taped to the end of the hood of a normal lens, then got hold of a macro lens. without a doubt, the best results come from multiple shots, stacked together. This means moving the camera setup through a horizontal plane, might only be a millimetre in total, but a hundred increments & a shot each time, then stack the hundred shots together.
I first platform for moving the camera was a ceramic tile cutter. I bolted the camera to the assembly that slides on the 2 rails, which gave me a fairly steady horizontal movement, still had to move manually by slightly nudging it with my finger, but it worked, I then made my own sliding platform with a micrometre attached for better control.
I you fancy having a go with stacking, sliding platform etc I'll assist if I can, I'm far from an expert but I experiment & persevere, keeps me out of mischief.
I will be honest, I only bought the microscope to use as a tool for identifying suspicious 1-2mm black dots to see if they were cat fleas* or not and for reading modern electronic and other laser etched component numbers.
*I don't trust systemic cat flea treatments, and I am happier to hunt for fleas then treat, using a reliable method that came to me by accident in the 1980's rather than routinely add non-natural chemicals to my cats. I've been lucky in the last twenty years we've only had one time when one of our cats has needed to be treated. I like the money saving aspect too, as well as the perceived biological advantage to my cats. It helps that I am absolutely sensitive and a MAGNET for blood suckers of all types, so I am a reliable trip wire, but most often the microscopic speck I've just plucked off myself or fished out of my bathwater and stuck under the microscope is..
