Re: [DIYbio] Re: $50 camera good for microscopy with machine vision code included

On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Cory Geesaman <co...@geesaman.com> wrote:
> I picked one of these up for a project the other week - has a bit more
> resolution and a cheaper pricetag.
> http://www.uctronics.com/mega-pixel-camera-module-ov5642-1080p-jpeg-output-p-1420.html
> They also have one with a smaller form factor and bigger lens at
> http://www.uctronics.com/mega-pixel-camera-module-ov5642-cs-mount-lens-p-1869.html
>

Those both look pretty nice, they have the important 8/10-bit RGB
output (meaning it's uncompressed, so you don't get compression noise
if you're doing machine vision).

So how do we mount these properly to microscopes now? The larger lens
version says it has a 'CS' camera mount.

I have two microscopes, one with a film-camera port on it
(fluorescense microscope), and one with just eye oculars. It'd be
great to have cameras on either/both.


With infinity-corrected microscope objective lenses, we should be able
to build our own microscopes too... this is a good howto, but it still
isn't easy enough to understand I think:
http://openlabtools.eng.cam.ac.uk/Instruments/Microscope/Optics/