Mk2 Microscope lens rig

I decided my mk1 rig was not holding the lens firmly enough so decided to update it.
Mk2 10X microscope lens camera setup.
Using EOS to M42 adapter £5, set of M42 extension tubes £10. M42 to RMS cone £20 and a cheapish Olympus 10X plan lens £28. All new either from Ebay or Amazon.
The narrow end makes it easier to rest the lens on my hand and get a reasonable angle on a potential subject on a surface.

The bug shots below were all live bugs taken handheld in situ and focus stacked using zerene. It's not the easiest thing to get the focus increments but it is just about possible handheld to get some worthwhile results. Something to plat with during the Winter.
Brian V.

Microscope lens rig.

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Extreme macro !!!

Nice set-up,and shots!

I was admiring this set over at Fred's -excellent detail for 10x hand held Brian

Nice! Hand-held, reflected light photomicrography.

A feat of ingenuity. Does it do the job ?

Good results

quick questions:

-whats the working distance?
-does the "lens" have some kind of aperture control? if not, would it be possible to use a normal lens instead of the ET and set the aperture there (not even sure if it would do something to the image)?

Nelvick wrote in post #17782100
Extreme macro !!!

mandokid1 wrote in post #17782116
Nice set-up,and shots!

Dalantech wrote in post #17782168
I was admiring this set over at Fred's -excellent detail for 10x hand held Brian

BlazinBob wrote in post #17782265
Nice! Hand-held, reflected light photomicrography.

sirbridge wrote in post #17782400
A feat of ingenuity. Does it do the job ?

Warl0rd wrote in post #17782445
Good results

quick questions:

-whats the working distance?
-does the "lens" have some kind of aperture control? if not, would it be possible to use a normal lens instead of the ET and set the aperture there (not even sure if it would do something to the image)?

Thanks all for the comments

Paulo - working distance around 5mm. No aperture control. The lens should be at it's optimum aperture.
You can put an microscope objectives onto a medium length telephoto lens in fact you are supposed to do that with infinity focus microscope objectives. I suspect though you would not get anything useful from using the lenses aperture control.

Brian v.

Great results from this set-up Brian

Worcester Lad wrote in post #17783602
Great results from this set-up Brian

Thanks George
Brian v.