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robertson.alan@gmail.com:
Is the SONY IMX290 Autofocus still the best camera for a Microscope these days, I notice there are other newer models without Autofocus that are 4K 60fps or have larger sensors but not autofocus

Is the Autofocus really a must have. Budget $400

Thanks
Alan

jfiresto:
Directly projecting an image from the microscope on to the camera sensor is often a good solution. The camera, then, does not, can not focus. As far as it is concerned, the microscope is a manual focus lens with a smallish aperture (mine is ca. f7, wide open).

jaaa1976:

--- Quote from: jfiresto on December 25, 2021, 06:56:10 am ---Directly projecting an image from the microscope on to the camera sensor is often a good solution. The camera, then, does not, can not focus. As far as it is concerned, the microscope is a manual focus lens with a smallish aperture (mine is ca. f7, wide open).

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Hi.. so which camera you using now? Im selling Panasonic LUMIX GX80  and want try microscope original camera now.need find which is best 4K model now.

jfiresto:
Sorry, somehow I did not see your last post until now.

I have been using the Olympus Pen Lite models, the E-PL1 through E-PL8. The -PL7 and -PL8 are quite nice for taking stills and videos. I am setting up a DMC-GX85, the U.S. market version of the -GX80, for streaming video. Why are you selling the -GX80? If the microscope has a classic, 1X c-mount photo port, you just need a cheap thread adapter to directly project onto the sensor.

EDIT: Here is an image I took for someone, of a -GX80/GX85 so mounted.



You can click on the image to see and save the 16 megapixel image.

Caliaxy:
SONY IMX290 is just a sensor used in different cameras, not a complete camera.

What kind of microscope are you referring to? Are you looking for a camera to mount on the camera port of a physical microscope or for one of those USB microscopes, which are essentially just cameras with high magnification lenses (not microscopes in the true sense of the term) connected to a computer, that can capture an enlarged image of the object?

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