$17 Amscope 4X Objective on a Labophot

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glmory
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$17 Amscope 4X Objective on a Labophot

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I bought the $17 Amscope 4X for a Labophot microscope. When using it to look through an eye piece it works fine. For photography though it is not filling an APS-C frame though. Looking at tests other people have done, this seems like it is an issue of my lighting rather than the objective.

Here is a photo showing how the images are clipped:
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I am directly projecting an image by removing the head of the microscope and installing extension tubes.
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This seems to work fine with my Nikon 10X objective. The dovetail to M42x1 adapter required some grinding to sit flat, but other than that the setup seems robust:
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Anyone know a fix for this clipping?

Maybe something wrong about the distance from the condenser to the objective that an extension could fix?

Would I likely experience the same problem on the LOMO 3.7X objective or a Nikon CFN 4x objective?

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