Re: [vernalpool] Microscope for laptop

There are much better ways to do this, but I've done a very cheap and
sleazy job of showing fairy shrimp swimming in a small aquarium by hitching
my digital camera up to my LCD projector using the video out cable that's
packaged with it (it, by the way, was a point-n-shoot panasonic lumix
TS-1), turning it (the camera) on and letting it just stream its live view
of the tank through the projector. It was really nothing to be proud of,
but got a lot of oohs and ahhs from my audience, most of whom had never
seen fairy shrimp.

Run of the mill digital cameras are a good way to handle this task these
days. Kind of beats dropping coin on microscopes and specialized imaging
equipment if you're just doing educational presentations and such.
Different story if you're collecting high quality video and stills for
publication and the like.

Matt

On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:15 PM, blassrd <dangelo.jim@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I would like to be able to show the smaller organisms living in the vernal
> pools during program using a laptop connected to a microscope or other
> device. Has anyone done this and does anyone have a recommendation on a
> microscope or other tool that would accomplish this? Some of the creatures
> I would like to be able to show off better are: green planaria, ostracods,
> water mites and others of similar size that can be difficult for people to
> see.
>
> Jim D'Angelo
> Sterling Nature Center
> Sterling, NY
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