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cacoseraph · Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 7:28 am Post subject: Stereo photography

I just saw CodeWilster's pics from his new stereo microscope and it made me think... is it possible to take stereo microscope pictures in stereo style?

for an example of stereo photography check out this pic: http://www.ledametrix.com/gallery09/01c.htm (it's not that it's a pretty pic, it is a good one to have the man jump out from the background =P

basically stereo photography (SP) is a method of taking two pictures and learning to look at them a special way to have your right eye feed the left image and vice versa, triggering your 3D vision routines to like, triangulate on all the differences between the two pics.

so, if CW can take a pic from each eye piece of the stereo microscope and put them together it is possible we could actually see the depth of the characteristics... which would make ID'ing and explaing what we are looking at MUCH easier
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CodeWilster · Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 10:45 pm Post subject:

I think I see what's up! I'll have to give that a try once I can find something really neat to photograph, that actually takes a good pic. When I get a few minutes either this or next week we'll give it a shot, Andrew!...
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cacoseraph · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:17 am Post subject:

you rock

i messed around with using my P-n-S digicam and i couldn't get the angles correct... but with a stereomicroscope you don't have to move as much stuff (if anything, i can't quite picture how the cam hooks up to the scope)
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CodeWilster · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:06 am Post subject:

It's kind of a pain actually. I must be doing something wrong but obviously I am still taking pictures.

In order to use it, because the stereo microscopes generally have wider/bigger? eye pieces they have to be removed and an adapter has to be put in place.

From there, I just put the camera (which is like another but longer eyepiece with an attached USB cord) down and it is 'supposed' to hold itself in place. Unfortunately that is not the case, I either need to hold it in by holding it with my hand, or, I just use the little rubber eye-piece caps (the thingies that make it comfortable for your eyes) and just kind of spin those around until it keeps the camera from falling out of place.

The directions were WAY too broad and I am missing something, or Celestron was wrong when they said it would fit any models of their microscopes.

Tried looking things up on goog but found nothing. If anybody has experience out there with these I would love to hear if this is the way it's supposed to be or if I screwed up somewhere.

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