> On 29 July 2016 at 10:47 Jostein Øksne <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The thread on microscope objectives is pretty standard, old DIN designation. > Pentax has an M-series microscope adapter with the same thread. Mounts > straight on a bellows or a camera.
I'll have to check mine. I don't remember it having a threaded part, just a clamp to go on the eyepiece tube. > > If you have any 4X to 10X laying about, it would be fun to test. According to > Web sources, the most suitable ones have an infinity symbol engraved along > with the magnification description. Apparently they can be mounted in front of > ordinary photographic lenses for more magnification and enabling of camera > electronics. > Jostein > > Den 29. juli 2016 09.23.47 CEST, skrev mike wilson <[email protected]>: > >> On 28 July 2016 at 21:54 Jostein <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > >> Mike, > >> the X4 indeed an objective lens. > >> > >> Wild Heerbrugg was a Swiss optical instruments manufacturer. > >> > >> The microscope it came from is pictured here: > >> http://m.finn.no/bap/webstore/ad.html?finnkode=63767741&fks=63767741 > >> > >> Note the spotlights above the tray. The 4X is probably included to > >have > >> the instrument double as a stereo loupe for biological specimens. > >> > >> Jostein > > > >Interesting design. Not stereo, despite the description, without > >double > >objectives. I wonder what its original purpose was. > > > >How did you mount the objective? I have access to a vast > >selection...... 8-) > > > > > >> > >> Den 28.07.2016 22.37, skrev mike wilson: > >> > That lens gives a very pleasant, relaxing effect. Unlike the cleg, > >as they > >> > are > >> > known here. > >> > > >> > X4 is an unusual size. This is an objective? Never heard of Wild > >Heerbrugg > >> > either. > >> > > >> >> On 28 July 2016 at 20:08 Jostein <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> Another stacking pursuit. > >> >> K-5, bellows, a 1947-vintage 4X lens scavenged off a Wild > >Heerbrugg M10 > >> >> microscope. 200 exposures. > >> >> > >> >> http://www.alunfoto.no/innhold/klegg-horsefly/ > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
