Hi, because our passion is not only about rocks and is made at 50% by trips, discoveries, and people I will post here pictures of my hunting spots, japanese panorama, people, place which made my fossil hunting trips particular, memorable and enriched me as much as fossils do. I hope you will enjoy this thread and that you will be able to have an insight of my Japan.

its been days I am looking for a good way to make a complete image of thin section, so we can have a very big picture but very useful for some tasks. actually I need to make an image processing software then process thins sections automatically. I know pretty much about software part. but still got problems for making very good image. 1- I tried very high DPI scanner and the results were simply not acceptable as we have very small microstructures inside some microfossils. the image is below: 2- I tried making lots of images with camera on microscope then stitch images together. the result is pretty good but changing position of thin section and capture image takes lots of time still we have stitching time too. this is the result: 3- I know we have some special devices for these cases but they are very high price and mostly suitable for universities not for personal uses 4- anyway maybe the only option is making a little machine that can automatically move the thin section on the microscope stage then automatically capture photo. so any suggestions guys? if something is not clear please answer. thanks