Re: Questions about the microscope needs of the community

On 12/26/2011 02:13 PM, Tim @ Backyard Brains wrote:
> Notice we are using an off-the-shelf monocular. Not good for
> dissection. Thoughts?
>
> Tim
>

How about combining Simon's concept of good focus only on the center field of a
simple lens, and panning around automatically to get a pseudo-flat stitched together
image with a pinhole lens grainy low light views of the whole area? You use the
low light pin hole grainy view of the whole area to help aim at another location to see sharply with full
light range.

For dissection, it's real time, not constructed mosaics, so you have two viewing screens,
one with a wide view, but low light, an the other a narrow view.

Or, if the narrow view is too narrow to work well, you could program a 3x3 panning of the view
to cover a larger area at ?x? frames a second for the surrounding views and 3 frames a second
for the center view. Then you'd see a surrounding updated slower and the main focus at a
rapid update rate to work with. That would require looking through two motorized prisms to
do the panning at a frames per second rate, but might be worth it.

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