Another useful gadget for microphotography

[Peat Burns]

Here is another neat little gadget I thought I would share:  A digital microscope / camera video camera that is powered by your computer USB.  It has built in dimmable LED lights as well as camera.  Images are captured via software that comes with it.  Image quality is not as good as the camera on my trinocular scope, or quite frankly my cell phone when taking pictures through the scope, but it has its uses.  It's relatively cheap at about $100.00.  And if you are a teacher with a "powerpoint projector", you can put items under the scope and project them on the big screen in real time for your class.  Also great for close-up photos for the Fossil ID forum .

 

Here is the scope

 

 

Here are some pictures taken with it:

 

Mississippian Actinopterygii tooth (approximately 1 mm in length)

 

Daphnia

 

 

Tiny Snail

[Shamalama]

I saw that scope on Amazon and was wondering if it was any good. The pics don't look too bad but are lacking in some detail.

 

Looks similar to this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XNYXQHE/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3HIHADV23VGU1

[Arizona Chris]

You know what that might be perfect for - field use.  If you find a huge boulder with small fossils, you can at least get a few shots.  Of course youll have to also grab your "field laptop".....