If you have a steady hand, and your photo-subjects are not running around, you may try to mount your Canon camera into an FL/FD bellows by using a EOS to FD adapter. In this case the adapter should not have any lens. At the other end of the bellows you would need a FD reversing ring, http://srb-phot...

Gosh, how detailed those photos are!!!. I can not close my mouth, wow.

Unfortunately, I do not know any place in Dallas to get a second hand lens. In any case, most of the trading in the USA is done via mail through the internet, thus getting a lens to the house of your friend is a matter of a few days. I had bought used equipment from the guys at KEH.com and they are ...

At close to $600 that novoflex adapter is quite expensive, you may try to get a simple reversing ring and get some old manual lenses. You can get a Canon FD 28 2.8 for around $40 at KEH (if you live in the USA), this lens reverse mounted directly in an APS-C camera produces a 2:1 magnification witho...

Hi Luciano. Although I can not suggest you any microscope objective, I wonder if you have tried using old manual camera lenses in an inverted position. I use a 28 mm Canon FD on extension tubes, and per my calculations, I can get some 6.5X magnification (or a bit less than 3.5 mm field of view on AP...

Hi Pau. Thanks for the link to Geosec, a very interesting page that I did not know. I am currently settling into Houston and have got the name of a company that make thin sections, amongst other kind of rock preparations. Mind you, most of my rock samples are still in Spain, thus I will have to wait...

Hello everybody. It has been so long ago since I have actively participated in the forum that my original ID was eliminated from the user list, anyway. Fred, I came through the same problem when trying to photograph thin sections. The microscope objectives allow only for such a reduced field of view...