Does anybody have a digitizing microscope?
Hello, I wanna take some pix of the 9HPn PCB layout. The components and markings are extremely small, and my camera can't resolve them. Does anyone have a microscope with picture capability to do a mosaic? Thanks, --Bart
I've put a camera up to a microscope lens with good results. Tom On Oct 29, 2015 8:42 PM, "Bart Kus" <me@bartk.us> wrote:
Hello,
I wanna take some pix of the 9HPn PCB layout. The components and markings are extremely small, and my camera can't resolve them. Does anyone have a microscope with picture capability to do a mosaic?
Thanks,
--Bart
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I do have a camera for my microscope, though it’s fairly high power for capturing a whole board, so it would take a lot of images to complete the mosaic. Example in video form here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4zfCyYZ9No <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4zfCyYZ9No>
On Oct 29, 2015, at 20:44, Tom Hayward <tom@tomh.us> wrote:
I've put a camera up to a microscope lens with good results.
Tom
On Oct 29, 2015 8:42 PM, "Bart Kus" <me@bartk.us <mailto:me@bartk.us>> wrote: Hello,
I wanna take some pix of the 9HPn PCB layout. The components and markings are extremely small, and my camera can't resolve them. Does anyone have a microscope with picture capability to do a mosaic?
Thanks,
--Bart
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These were taken with my Nikon DSLR with a macro lens. The circuit board is 1"x2". 2sec @ f/8. Better sharpness would have been at f/22, but this was adequate for my purposes at the time. http://www.photoever.com/items/NookHdmiTop.jpg http://www.photoever.com/items/NookHdmiBottom.jpg On 2015-10-29 20:42, Bart Kus wrote:
Hello,
I wanna take some pix of the 9HPn PCB layout. The components and markings are extremely small, and my camera can't resolve them. Does anyone have a microscope with picture capability to do a mosaic?
Thanks,
--Bart
Sounds like it's time for a shoot-off between the macro and the micro! The features/labels on the 9HPn are right at the edge of resolution of both of these by the looks of it. I can do photo stitching from lots of pix, that's not a problem. Dean, does the macro lens get any zoomier? I'm not sure how you framed that shot. --Bart On 10/29/2015 9:04 PM, Dean Gibson AE7Q wrote:
These were taken with my Nikon DSLR with a macro lens. The circuit board is 1"x2". 2sec @ f/8. Better sharpness would have been at f/22, but this was adequate for my purposes at the time.
http://www.photoever.com/items/NookHdmiTop.jpg http://www.photoever.com/items/NookHdmiBottom.jpg
On 2015-10-29 20:42, Bart Kus wrote:
Hello,
I wanna take some pix of the 9HPn PCB layout. The components and markings are extremely small, and my camera can't resolve them. Does anyone have a microscope with picture capability to do a mosaic?
Thanks,
--Bart
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For my images, did you click on the image in the browser to zoom in to 100%? I framed the shot to capture most of the 1"x3" circuit board. It's capable of a 1:1 macro image (which is much closer than I did in the images below), which means that the image will be the same size as the sensor (in this case a "full-frame" 24x36mm). Now, that 24x36mm sensor is 7360x4912 pixels. The images below were taken in JPG format. For really good sharpness, I'd take them in RAW (Nikon's "NEF") format, or TIFF format. The manual says that the TIFF files in maximum resolution are 108.2 MB. -- Dean On 2015-10-29 21:18, Bart Kus wrote:
Sounds like it's time for a shoot-off between the macro and the micro! The features/labels on the 9HPn are right at the edge of resolution of both of these by the looks of it. I can do photo stitching from lots of pix, that's not a problem.
Dean, does the macro lens get any zoomier? I'm not sure how you framed that shot.
--Bart
On 10/29/2015 9:04 PM, Dean Gibson AE7Q wrote:
These were taken with my Nikon DSLR with a macro lens. The circuit board is 1"x3". 2sec @ f/8. Better sharpness would have been at f/22, but this was adequate for my purposes at the time.
http://www.photoever.com/items/NookHdmiTop.jpg http://www.photoever.com/items/NookHdmiBottom.jpg
On 2015-10-29 20:42, Bart Kus wrote:
Hello,
I wanna take some pix of the 9HPn PCB layout. The components and markings are extremely small, and my camera can't resolve them. Does anyone have a microscope with picture capability to do a mosaic?
Thanks, Bart
That sounds like it would do the trick (going to 1:1). When can we make it happen? --Bart On 10/29/2015 9:32 PM, Dean Gibson AE7Q wrote:
For my images, did you click on the image in the browser to zoom in to 100%?
I framed the shot to capture most of the 1"x3" circuit board. It's capable of a 1:1 macro image (which is much closer than I did in the images below), which means that the image will be the same size as the sensor (in this case a "full-frame" 24x36mm). Now, that 24x36mm sensor is 7360x4912 pixels. The images below were taken in JPG format. For really good sharpness, I'd take them in RAW (Nikon's "NEF") format, or TIFF format. The manual says that the TIFF files in maximum resolution are 108.2 MB.
-- Dean
On 2015-10-29 21:18, Bart Kus wrote:
Sounds like it's time for a shoot-off between the macro and the micro! The features/labels on the 9HPn are right at the edge of resolution of both of these by the looks of it. I can do photo stitching from lots of pix, that's not a problem.
Dean, does the macro lens get any zoomier? I'm not sure how you framed that shot.
--Bart
On 10/29/2015 9:04 PM, Dean Gibson AE7Q wrote:
These were taken with my Nikon DSLR with a macro lens. The circuit board is 1"x3". 2sec @ f/8. Better sharpness would have been at f/22, but this was adequate for my purposes at the time.
http://www.photoever.com/items/NookHdmiTop.jpg http://www.photoever.com/items/NookHdmiBottom.jpg
On 2015-10-29 20:42, Bart Kus wrote:
Hello,
I wanna take some pix of the 9HPn PCB layout. The components and markings are extremely small, and my camera can't resolve them. Does anyone have a microscope with picture capability to do a mosaic?
Thanks, Bart
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Pretty much any time; I'm retired. I'd suggest during the day, for best amount of light, evenly distributed. I have skylights. It's probably easier for you to bring the board here, rather than me truck the tripod and camera/lens over there, unless you are allergic to cats. Bring sufficient memory. My upload speed to OneDrive is probably around 0.5MB/sec. -- Dean On 2015-10-29 21:33, Bart Kus wrote:
That sounds like it would do the trick (going to 1:1). When can we make it happen?
--Bart
On 10/29/2015 9:32 PM, Dean Gibson AE7Q wrote:
For my images, did you click on the image in the browser to zoom in to 100%?
I framed the shot to capture most of the 1"x3" circuit board. It's capable of a 1:1 macro image (which is much closer than I did in the images below), which means that the image will be the same size as the sensor (in this case a "full-frame" 24x36mm). Now, that 24x36mm sensor is 7360x4912 pixels. The images below were taken in JPG format. For really good sharpness, I'd take them in RAW (Nikon's "NEF") format, or TIFF format. The manual says that the TIFF files in maximum resolution are 108.2 MB.
-- Dean
On 2015-10-29 21:18, Bart Kus wrote:
Sounds like it's time for a shoot-off between the macro and the micro! The features/labels on the 9HPn are right at the edge of resolution of both of these by the looks of it. I can do photo stitching from lots of pix, that's not a problem.
Dean, does the macro lens get any zoomier? I'm not sure how you framed that shot.
--Bart
On 10/29/2015 9:04 PM, Dean Gibson AE7Q wrote:
These were taken with my Nikon DSLR with a macro lens. The circuit board is 1"x3". 2sec @ f/8. Better sharpness would have been at f/22, but this was adequate for my purposes at the time.
http://www.photoever.com/items/NookHdmiTop.jpg http://www.photoever.com/items/NookHdmiBottom.jpg
On 2015-10-29 20:42, Bart Kus wrote:
Hello,
I wanna take some pix of the 9HPn PCB layout. The components and markings are extremely small, and my camera can't resolve them. Does anyone have a microscope with picture capability to do a mosaic?
Thanks, Bart
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Tom Hayward