Snowflakes Photos - 1st attempt

Last Wednesday, I used my 40D attached to my compound microscope to photograph some snowflakes. I got a few that I am satisfied with. I will try to post a couple of photos.

RDR

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amazing!the 1st pic if i where u i would clone out the dirty spots in the photo..the photo is really good but there's few bits of dirt that spoils it.

Gorgeous shots!

Have you checked out http://www.its.caltech​.edu …rystals/photos/​photos.htm ?

Thanks. Both photos are unedited.
Yeah, I have looked at the caltech site. He does amazing work!

RDR

Lovely capturews
Brian v.

Great work.

Great shots!!

Great stuff.

Could you post a section of detail at 100% crop and maybe toss in a photo of the setup you shot with?

Beautiful detail.

great shots, what adapter do you have for your microscope and what microscope ive been meaning to try it so i can study a few things. browsing around looking at different things, yours seem real clear.

Thanks for all the kind comments.

Here are 100% and 200% crops of the same photo. I will post a photo and description of my setup in another post.

Ruth

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Here is a list of and a photo of my setup:

Canon Angle Finder "B"
Canon 40D
Canon Macro Lens Mount Converter FD-EOS (the one without the glass in it)
Canon PhotoMicro Unit "F"

Spencer compound microscope (I did not use the top 10x microscope objective, only the lower 10x objective). 100x plus the 1.6 camera enlargement was WAY too big. I only saw a small part of a snowflake with the top objective in.

My scope does not have a light built-in (it is 62 years old) only a mirror for reflecting the light up to the specimen. I used a goose neck lamp with a full spectrum fluorescent light bulb directed at the mirror.

I had not used my microscope in forever and could not find any glass slides, so I used a round screw in plain glass camera filter to catch and view my snowflakes. The glass of the filter was raised alittle off the stage of the scope because of the rim of the filter. I think I could get better focus using a real microscope slide. Will try to find some before the next snow.

Ruth

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Omg, i love these. I have a microscope very similar which my mum used when she was younger, but i can't get it to focus for the life of me. I figure it was taken apart at some point and not put together right. I might try and get a new one though.

I though about trying this myself. Looks a bit tricky. The light should be very even. Maybe convert to grayscale to eliminate the color outlines? Very nicely captured. --Rick

I am actually looking at getting a LED ring light to place below the stage. Most of the more modern lighted microscopes that I have seen on the internet recently are using LED lighting.

Ruth