My old SRT101 is truely an amazingly versitile piece
of equipment. I recently acquired a relatively inexpensive used
Minolta microscope adapter for my SRT101. This picture is the best
of about 10 pictures I took as an experiment. The subject is salt.
I first dissolved some salt in water on a microscope slide and then
waited for it to crystallize again as the water evaporated. I am
pretty surprised by the quality of this shot. High resolution scans
of the negative are even more impressive, but are far too big for posting
on this web site. Wet mounted slides of microscopic aquarium life have
come out somewhat less sharp, at least with this first attempt. I am guessing
that that is due to the camera's shutter shaking the microscope and vibrating
the water on the wet mount slides. I did try to minimize this shaking by
using the mirror lockup feature and a cable release. I used the SRT's built
in light meter and used the shutter speed to adjust exposure. Shutter
speeds were around 1/30th to 1/60th of a second and film was Kodak's new
400 ASA Gold, which I have recently started using. I also added a blue
filter to the microscope's light source to remove the yellow cast that the
tungsten lamp would otherwise produce. The microscope is a fairly inexpensive
(around $200) student model that has maximum power of 400x. This picture
was taken at 100x magnification.
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