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Originally Posted by Chris Yeates  looking down the scope will (probably?) always be the best way for me to study fungi microscopically |
Wise man to qualify with the word 'probably?'
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Originally Posted by Chris Yeates ... resolution on a screen / photo is, after all a limited, 'dotty' view, always inferior even though my new set-up which can produce RAW images at 28Mb is getting there
would you want to go birdwatching with a laptop looking at what your bins are seeing?
best
Chris |
How often do you find that a photo taken with your camera reveals more than you noticed/can see with the naked eye? That is a dotty picture that it takes, but a dotty picture of what the
camera sees through its lens, not what
I see through
my eyes, (though the object and the space between is the same). It can get closer up and more personal than I can do ....
And remember what Dave J said the other day about using his camera to help id birds? ... when he can't see the detail he needs with his bins? Yet he is looking at a dotty picture but gets more detail, and that is on his lcd camera screen ....
Similarly with the microscope camera, it doesn't turn what I see with my eyes into a dotty picture (though when they develop the technology to plug my brain straight into the computer then that might happen
). Then I'd agree, if that were the case then it might not be so good, perhaps, unless its intelligence in interpreting light is better programmed than mine. Instead it is what the
camera sees down the microscope that gets turned into a dotty picture. It appears to see more than my eyes plus an eyepiece lens can see. Its lens must be better than mine even when enhanced by the eyepiece
cheers
Melanie
