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[kuma]

Hello everybody!
How are things today ? I hope all is well!

What was the magnification of that package in that photo?

Hi Claudie! It would have been somewhere between 30x and 40x magnification.
I take these pictures by very carefully and patiently holding the lens of my girlfriends pink camera over the top of my kids Natural History Museum microscope , it takes a while and a fair few shots to get the right one , but it's always worth it eventualy! :mrgreen:

I never would have guessed it! Thanks for the great pic Kuma!!

No worries chief! I first read about these wires here , but when I actualy started breaking into them and seeing them with my eyes , that changed the ball game! 8)
All the best everyone , and kind regards ,
Chris

 

[macfixer01]

Hello everybody!
How are things today ? I hope all is well!

What was the magnification of that package in that photo?

Hi Claudie! It would have been somewhere between 30x and 40x magnification.
I take these pictures by very carefully and patiently holding the lens of my girlfriends pink camera over the top of my kids Natural History Museum microscope , it takes a while and a fair few shots to get the right one , but it's always worth it eventualy! :mrgreen:

I never would have guessed it! Thanks for the great pic Kuma!!

No worries chief! I first read about these wires here , but when I actualy started breaking into them and seeing them with my eyes , that changed the ball game! 8)
All the best everyone , and kind regards ,
Chris

Chris,
I've thought of buying one of those low-end USB microscopes for capturing pictures of small objects. I wanted to mention though besides my current Nikon camera I still have an older 3MP HP camera with few bells and whistles. There were several sellers on Ebay offering separate macro lenses for a variety of brands that just screw into the hot-shoe for mounting then sit in front of the built-in lens. You focus it using the LCD display by manually moving the camera closer or further from the object. For a cheap solution it actually worked pretty well. Of course that just gets you close-up, not so much magnification. Just a thought...

macfixer01

 

[kuma]

Hello all , how are tricks today?
I hope all is well!

Chris,
I've thought of buying one of those low-end USB microscopes for capturing pictures of small objects. I wanted to mention though besides my current Nikon camera I still have an older 3MP HP camera with few bells and whistles. There were several sellers on Ebay offering separate macro lenses for a variety of brands that just screw into the hot-shoe for mounting then sit in front of the built-in lens. You focus it using the LCD display by manually moving the camera closer or further from the object. For a cheap solution it actually worked pretty well. Of course that just gets you close-up, not so much magnification. Just a thought...

macfixer01

I've seen the USB microscopes , they look pretty neat. There's one in a catalouge that gets sent to me all the time , I'm just not sure if I'd use it enough to warrant buying one.
On the flip side though the thought of hopping up from 40x to 200x magnification , and instantly having the image on screen , is appealing to me!

http://tinyurl.com/c8fc5p3

A macro lense isn't something that I'd considered , but it sounds like another option that would make my life easier when trying to get better close-ups , I'll have a look at these.
Thanks for the advice Macfixer! :mrgreen:
All the best and kind regards ,
Chris