I have been trying out taking photos using a microscope without a lot of success. The first problem was a bright spot with a light halo in the centre of the photo:
This had me really puzzled and I couldn’t sort it out. Consulting a friend, he suggested it might be a caused by light reflecting in the camera adaptor tube. This sounded realistic so I painted the inside of the tube with blackboard paint. As you can see with the next image, this worked (Thanks Wal!).
So I now turned to taking photographs of a genuine subject – spider mite from our greenhouse that are infesting our cucumber plants. But I wanted to try something different – not capture and mount a specimen on a slide, but to take a live specimen on its web. This gave the following image:
Cropping and adjusting the exposure gave:
Not too bad for a first attempt but could be better. The set-up looked like this:
This was taken using natural light. The main problem was movement of the mite causing not just movement blur but actually moving out of focus.
You can see the infested plants in the background.