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| Dryosaurus caudal vertebra (ventral view), taken with an LG enV phone and a hand lens. |
I decided to try to take a picture of the same vert with our new "DinoLight" [here is a review of the camera]. John recently purchased this to try an get some better macro pictures of his trilobites than we were getting with our default camera. Below is the same vert, taken with the scope camera:
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| Dryosaurus caudal vertebra (ventral view), taken with the "DinoLight" |
Not too surprising, the scope camera worked somewhat better. It can be a tad on the touchy side when focusing, but over all it is pretty easy to use. I just wish the resolution was a little better. It is also nice to know that your phone and the hand lens will work in a pinch.
Just for fun, here is another fossil that happened to be in reach... under the DinoLight:
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| Tiny mammal jaw (Morrison Formation, upper Jurassic of Wyoming) mounted on pin head. |
© ReBecca K. Hunt-Foster
6 comments:
Thanks for the link! I've also posted some fossil shots using the same technique here:
http://microecos.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/1719/
Very nice!
you could do the same thing but with much higher resolution with a good DSLR attached to a microscope.
The iphone trick is good for in the field I'd think, but in a laboratory, why settle? especially given that Microscope adapters for DSLRs like the Canon EOS are only around $10-20.
cheers,
nick
I know that Nick, but this was more of a try at something others had done, not something I would use every day, especially not at work. The DSLR's are always an option.
ReBecca,
Someone republished this post at this URL: http://theloungeforum.net/blog/?p=9. Weird... you may want to tell them to knock it off!
C
Thanks Callan. That is weird. I have reported it to WordPress. Thanks for the heads up!!
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