What I have found in using this. Is that although it occasionally has trouble connecting to my D90, I am able to get it working after a try or two. Choosing Tethered Shooting Software for Nikon DSLR Cameras. Most Nikon DSLR owners are unlikely to have experimented with tethered shooting for one simple reason. Richard J Kinch, PhD Last updated November, 2016. This page describes the custom adapters I make to fit a variety of cameras, microscopes, and medical instruments. Starting July 1, 2016 Ive moved the software update and software news into a blog form that has its own RRS feed right column. All digital photography software. This site covers Canon and Nikon DSLRs and related products and is updated nearly daily. The most recent articles posted in last 30 days are. Making Digital Camera Microscope Adapters Making Digital Camera Microscope Adapters. Richard J Kinch, Ph. DigiCamControl, an opensource camera controlling software with functions such as exposure, focusing, live view, focus stacking and time lampse, etc. Canon Canon FX film camera combined with a point and shot digital camera, Parkinstyle. EF 50mm 11. 8 white painted and with extension for macro. D. Last updated November, 2. This page describes the custom adapters I make to fit a variety of cameras, microscopes, and medical instruments. I engineer and fabricate these adapters personally using my own CAD facility, optical engineering laboratory, machine shop, and. For most of these simpler mechanical adapters, I charge 1. USD, depending on the complexity. Adapters incorporating optical elements are more complex and typically cost 5. Complete kits for medical and scientific instruments, with custom mechanical, optical, and electronic components, range from 8. Driver Starforce Protection Windows 7. Old and new optical instruments are thereby fitted into the modern age of digital imaging. I also research and develop new instrumentation designs for larger projects which involve much higher costs. Besides the mechanical attachment, these adapters apply one of several optical principles to couple the camera to the microscope. Afocal through the normal eyepiece to inexpensive small format digital cameras. Focal from a photoport to lensless digital SLR cameras. Focal from a photoport to small format digital cameras via a relay lens. Afocal through a custom photo eyepiece for large lensed digital cameras. The metalworking process may be illustrated by the first such adapter I made was some years back. This was for a Sony DSC S3. Bausch and Lomb microscope. This creates a system for high quality, wide field photomicrography. The lens of the Sony DSC S3. Thus the adapter will consist of a turret with outside threads to mate to the camera lens. Below is a view of the Sony DSC S3. L-cable.jpg?resize=609%2C607' alt='D200 Tethering Software For Canon' title='D200 Tethering Software For Canon' />This is an old Bausch and Lomb inspection microscope. This US manufactured item. The optics are. superb, providing a wide, flat field at a variety of zoom magnifications from. D200 Tethering Software For Canon' title='D200 Tethering Software For Canon' />Today, you can find them used on e. Bay for perhaps 5. The turrets of the binocular. This allows. a simple cylindrical adapter to nest on top of the eyepiece. This is a portion, at full resolution, of a photo taken by the Sony camera in the above setup. The object shown is a Lincoln penny, of which you are seeing part of Lincolns face. I measured the features shown with calipers, giving a true height of the representation as 0. The digital image is 5. Thus the system resolves about 7. If we assume your display renders 9. The camera resolves 1. The microscope field zooms from about 1 inch at 7x magnification, to 14 inch at 3. This is an amazing quality of result given that this camera sells for under 2. Such a system would have cost many 1. I dont know the resolution limits of the microscope optics, but theyre probably better. Sony DSC S3. 0 camera is resolving in this setup. If that is true, then a higher resolution camera would resolve more detail. I have a much better digital camera now, but it uses a large aperture lens that isnt as. As a general optical design principle, one would want a small camera lens for this kind of. With camera lenses, bigger is usually better, since you can gather more light. But digital cameras can and typically do have. CCD electronic imaging. The light available is determined by the microscope optics, not the camera. Many digital cameras today 2. This is a wonderful thing for those wanting to adapt the cameras to. The pupil of the human eye may be assume to be about 4 to 5 mm in diameter when viewing microscope images. A good microscope will provide an exit pupil of similar diameter, and the camera lens should match this as well. Not so wonderful for the would be photomicrographer is the trend away from putting filter mount. Sony. DSC S3. 0 have a telescoping lens contraption that regrettably features no thread mount. If youre looking to buy a digital camera with hopes of photomicrography, look for one with a fixed, threaded. Even if your camera has an extendingretracting lens turret, you may find an optional adapter tube. Nikon, Canon, and Olympus examples below. As a last resort, one can fit a sleeve machined just larger than the turret, with one or more screws for clamping. The Sony DSC S8. Sony VAD S7. The photos below show the attachment of the M4. Olympus C 3. 02. Another unusual feature of this adapter is that it can be screwed inside the UR E8 adapter, or reversibly outside. This allows the microscope eyepiece a 1. The photos to the left show the reversible mounting. I made a similar large adapter, with Nylon thumbscrew, to adapt a Nikon D7. M6. 2x. 0. 7. 5, to a Celestron 4. This step down ring adapter shown in the center of the photo I made. Canon LA DC5. 2C step up adapter left. Canon A6. 0, A7. 0, A7. A8. 5 digital camera similar to the LA DC5. D for the A8. 0 or A9. LA DC5. 2B for the A3. A4. 0. which provides an M5. C mount 1 3. 2 thread adapter right of photo on the microscope. This Canon adapter, like the Nikon one above, provides an offset tube, inside which the lens turret of the camera has room to extend and retract. Both the inside and outside edges of the ring are threaded, although the photo resolution doesnt resolve all the threads. This adapter is different than the others in that instead of an unthreaded sliding fit to a cylindrical microscope eyepiece, the. C mount threads on the microscope. It is essentially a 14 thick aluminum washer. A similar approach would work for the Canon LA DC5. D conversion lens adapter, which provides a 5. Canon Powershot G6 camera. Likewise for the LA DC5. Powershot G1 and G2, and the LA DC5. B. for the Powershot G3 and G5. This adapter I made for a customers Olympus C 4. The smooth inside bore slips closely over the eyepiece 1. Bausch and Lomb inspection microscope. The height in the photo shows my standard 1 inch overall length for these adapters. I have also begun including a rubber O ring with each of the slip type adapters. For example, for this adapter with a 1. Buna N O ring ID1. OD1 31. 6, section18. This provides a cushion against which one can rest the front of the lens turret. To increase the vertex distance, one can insert more of the same O rings in a stack. This adapter also required an additional modification not shown in the photo above or visible in the assembly photo below to accommodate the turret lens of the camera projecting 0. Olympus CLA 1 4. Since the step ending the 4. Olympus tube was 0. This photo shows the completed assembly, consisting of the Olympus C 4. Olympus CLA 1 adapter, and custom microscope adapter. Most camera filter threads have a tiny 0. This close up photo shows a threaded section of the C 4. Threads cut properly on a lathe wiil have a smooth finish and correct profile. Good quality threads attach easily to the camera lens, and ensure a secure attachment. I usually design the threaded length to span about 14, which is about 8 to 1. Full engagement to the camera lens typically requires only 2 or 3 careful turns. Should the initial threads of an adapter ever be damaged, such as by dropping it or accidentally. I can repair it on the lathe by simply facing. This custom adapter connects the 3. American Optical AO inspection. X eyepiece having a 1. This adapter is a bit thin, but still strong enough for the mounting task. In cases where the camera threads happen to be smaller in diameter than the outside of the eyepiece, the adapter uses. This photo shows how the eyepiece joins precisely to the adapter with a slip fit. This provides an accurate axial alignment, which minimizes aberrations and distortions in the photo images. Digital Photography Software News DSLRBodies. Well, Adobes done it again. Theyre stirred up a hornets nest with their Lightroom announcements. Even my teaching partner was in a tizzy yesterday morning and leveled a long phone tirade at me about what Adobe had done. Sigh.  First off, Im certainly not an Adobe apologist. I think they have lots of problems, many of them very frustrating to those of us who use their products. Also, the whole thing about overemphasizing Lightroom CC over Lightroom Classic CC on their Web site just adds to the confusion surrounding their products and inflates the emotions that are playing out among the LightroomPhotoshop user crowd. I was never particularly upset by the switch from perpetual licensed software to the Sa. S software as service model. When I calculated everything out, the actual costs to me were about the same over time. The one problem I did have, though, was the loss of the use of a full product if I ever got off the subscription mouse wheel. That, I think was a wrong decision by Adobe its been a big source of the ill will towards CC from the beginning. As Ive written before, software is not forever nor is hardware. Ive been through so many word processors and spreadsheet programs and versions in my tech history that I cant count them. I actually think that if CC gives Adobe the steady stream of revenue they need to keep their products up to date and keep them getting better, then fine. But the sheer number of emails, forum threads, editorials, and yes, even phone calls Ive been pointed to or have received about Adobes latest change is a bit startling. Theyre full of emotion, anger, and vitriol. And often irrational math. One fellow said he would have paid as much as US3. Lightroom update, which at current prices is over two and a half years worth of LightroomPhotoshop under the current CC program. Adobe promised in 2. Lightroom would be around indefinitely. Indefinite, as in an unknown amount of time that is not endless. That turned out to be four years. Less than many of us had hoped, for sure. Many are already assuming that Lightroom Classic CC is on the same indefinite model. Well, sure. All software is usable only for an indefinite time. I see people already guessing there wont be a Lightroom 8 what Adobe would probably call Photoshop Lightroom Classic CC 2. I suppose thats possible, but I think it unlikely, and Adobes postings on the subject seem to verify that. While we dont know exactly how much revenue the current US9. Photoshop and Lightroom generates for Adobe, it has to be considerable. And transitioning photographers to a less than Classic version of Lightroom would be terrifically difficult to do, I think. Lightroom CC the new online only version is a very small subset of Lightroom Classic it has a long way to go before it can even replicate the organization abilities of Classic. A long way.  As I tell everyone when a big change comes down the pike, thats a good time to look at your entire ecosystem and figure out if its the best for you. The notion that you only buy your computer, software, and camera once is long gone. For those of you who think it isnt, just freeze your spending and lock down on what youve got. Be happy with all the money you save not trying to keep up. Adobes timing isnt great for trying to figure out what to do next, though. None of the true competitors are really quite where they need to be in order to take full advantage of the Lightroom fiasco your words, not mine. Mac. Phun is still a ways away from releasing their Lightroom compatible digital asset management DAM companion to Luminar. On. 1 Photo RAW 2. Lightroom abilities, but no absolute compatibility, meaning youll be changing horses. Capture. 1 has DAM they got from Microsoft, but its a different thought set, so youre again changing horses. The Affinity folks are still not showing their future DAM product, though they have a near Photoshop equivalent on the market. A product you might not have considered, Apple Photos, is starting to come back into bloom with all the extensions available to it, but is Mac only, still has some issues, and is yet another change of horse. Still, its a good time to rethink your workflow and where and how you use your images. For the time being, my workflow isnt changing, but Im thinking about how its likely to change in the not too distant future. Personally, I have my fingers crossed for Mac. Phun, as it seems like the most likely one to appear with near full Lightroom compatibility in the near future, and Ive liked and used many of Mac. Phuns products for some time. But be careful what you wish for. A lot of people are making economic arguments about Adobe the US9. Ive noted recently, asking for US7. US9. 9 a year for updates to get features that start to bring your software up to Lightroom level is a minimum of US6. Software development is difficult, expensive, and the target is constantly moving. You need to expect to pay for that. The funny thing is, back in the days of film, we were paying all the time. Every image we shot had an implied cost to it processing and sometimes printing. Nothings really changed. If we want darkroom like capability, were still paying for it with digital. Finally, heres the other thing that everyone in the photography community keeps forgetting were in the minority now. Apple, Google, and yes Adobe, all have been making moves regarding photography that cater to a new world where most images are captured with smartphones and shared via Internet services. Ive reported how the camera companies are completely botching this turn of events, and as a result, camera sales are down. Way down.  Lets put that in numbers for you to ponder. In the first quarter global smartphone sales were in the neighborhood of 3. In the first quarter global shipments of dedicated cameras were 5. Japanese companies, so add in units from the non Japanese and we still dont get to 7 million. Not even 2 of the smartphone unit volume. Now do you know why Adobe wants to have mobile and now desktop users on that new Lightroom CC If you were the head of Adobe youd be trying to rally your troops to the new battlefield, too. Scott Kelby posted a clip from the Adobe Max Keynote that pretty much highlights the pitch Adobe is making with Lightroom CC. Its a powerful point, though for us production photographers it would be costly to try to use that approach solely we just dont have the bandwidth while shooting to take advantage of that. So whats all that mean to Lightroom Classic CC for us dedicated camera types Unknown. Ask Again Later.  Seriously. If Adobes moves yesterday really start an exodus away from Lightroom Classic CC, then the length of time Adobe will continue to move that product forward is likely shortened. If things stay stable for Adobe with the Photography Plan at US9. I think it likely that theyll just continue on as usual with Lightroom Classic as they continue to try to position and improve Lightroom CC against Apple and Google. This absolutely means that you can vote with your pocketbook. Just be careful what you wish for. Lightroom Classic CC is the most robust, fully featured, and well integrated DAM we currently have. Youre not rushing towards better products when you exit the building. At least not until one shows up. Thats why I noted that the timing is bad for the competitors. Theyre not quite ready to step in and claim your US6.