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Using a Sony Cyber-Shot Digital Camera for Photomicrography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Gregor Overney
Gregor Overney*
Affiliation:
Agilent Technologies Inc.
*
gregor_overney@agilent.com

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Photomicrography is the combination of photography and compound microscopy. Photographers working with compound microscopes are facing many challenges (for an introduction see [1] and [2]). Digital photography offers great advantages, but also adds additional difficulties. Digital cameras have been used in photomicrography for over a decade now. Today, we have access to many excellent consumer-grade digital cameras that are most suitable for low-cost imaging systems for light microscopy. In this short paper, I summarize my experience with the Sony DSC-S70 digital camera, which comes with a nice, large Zeiss lens. (Most of the ideas presented in this paper are also valid for the DSC-S75 and DSC-S85.)

Type
Research Article
Information
Microscopy Today , Volume 10 , Issue 6 , November 2002 , pp. 10 - 15
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2002

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