I am interested in taking digital photos through laparoscopes and cystoscopes. These are basically rod lens based optical instruments for looking inside bladders and bellys for surgery. There is a common eyepiece to these instruments which is similar to that for a telescope. I think the problem is connecting a camera to the scope?

I would like to obtain digital photographs through the scope but would also want to take regular pictures. I am presently considering the olympus 600 and nikon coolpix 900 cameras. I need high resolution and ease of use. Help!!!

Cheers Andrew

-- Andrew Portis (portisa@earthlink.com), August 07, 1998

Answers

This seems to be a pretty common need. There's a thread somewhere here (look below in the categorized comments), where someone was looking to attach a camera to a microscope. I mentioned some application-specific cameras designed for that purpose, but nobody reported a generic, front-of-the-lens solution. Maybe find that thread, correspond with the guy, see if he found an answer. (And post the results back here for everyone else...)

Good Luck!

-- Dave Etchells (hotnews@imaging-resource.com), August 08, 1998.

We manufacture a very adjustable adapter that will allow just about any digital camera to mount to any telescope, and also most microscopes, etc. The only real requirement is that it have an active viewscreen so you can see though the camera lens to focus. See it at: http://www.scopetronix.com Click on the "Astrophotography Products" button.

-- Jordan Blessing (jblessing@scopetronix.com), September 21, 1999.