It could be. I don't know the scientific details of how the MkIII works, but it does have a silent mode, and I can set first or second curtain and I can do it all in Live View. Isn't it the same thing as in the other bodies you mentioned?

Yes, I have seen every page, image and article on your site. LOL. I heard about it before I ever found this forum. Someone over at POTN told me about it in a thread I started to ask about microscopes. Not really strong on micro over there. :) The other link I saw once before, digested it and was goi...

Thanks Charles. I have looked at a bunch of PC images since that post, and decided I don't much care for the halo look. Just a preference. What changes with darkfield over 20X? So far, my prime interest is in diatoms, paramecium's and the like, both video and still. My scope arrives on Wednesday and...

I have owned most of the Canon EOS line, from D-30 to the 1D MkIII. I think I missed the 10D, 50D and all of the full frame bodies. But I have found that all shutters are different also. The 30D was nice and light, little vibration, but the MkIII is called the sausage slicer by my friends. That thin...

I don't know of any real way to stop vibration from the camera. Mirror lock up does help, but then you have the shutter tripping, which is almost as bad as the mirror flipping up. I would definitely use live view if your camera has it. Longer shutter times has never worked for me, even when shooting...

Thanks Rik. Most of that made sense. I need to read a lot more, which is part of the fun of learning something new. So if I have this right, bright and darkfield are a product of the light source and condenser hardware, while phase contrast requires different objective lenses [plan?] and light sourc...

Hi all. Fascinating forum here, great place. I have a few questions that I hope are not too newbie, about scopes that I am looking to buy. I have decided to buy new, for the warranty, rather than used. And so far, I have narrowed it to Amscope for a scope in their Advanced Professional Biological Re...

Very nice detail in both of these Franz. I wish I knew more about what I was looking at. The IQ is so good though, I can see the surface of it's shell. Are these stacks?