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4 Sep 2024 07:14:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Cheap microscope  
From: Mike Raiford
Date: 1 Apr 2010 08:30:10
Message: <4bb491d2$1@news.povray.org>
On 3/31/2010 4:16 AM, scott wrote:
> Attached is what you get when you cross one of these:
>
> http://www.fujilab.co.uk/catalog/images/magnifier%20loupe10x.jpg
>
> with one of these:
>
> http://www.letsgodigital.org/images/artikelen/6/canon_powershot_g7_zoom.jpg
>
> I was amazed that I could resolve the black gaps inside this LCD pixel
> that are only 1800 nm wide - that's just 3x the wavelength of red light!
> And with a old consumer digital camera and 1 euro magnifying thingy.
>

I'll have to drag out my extension tubes and reversing ring +50mm 1.8 to 
see what magnification I get on an LCD screen, now ... ;)

-- 
~Mike


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