Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
In this video, I show you which camera adapter fits the best with my Radical 2000x metallurgical microscope. When I bought this microscope, I picked a very simple T2-NEX adapter which turned out to be wrong, because the image suffers from heavy vignetting. Then, I purchased a rather expensive adapter, called “NDPL-1(2X)” with a built-in aperture and lenses, but it did not work either. In fact, it produces a distorted image with a heavy chromatic aberration, and guess what, vignetting. Then, the third option was just a simple extension tube (“Eyepiece projection adapter”). This adapter significantly increased the distance between the microscope lens and the sensor of the camera which resulted in a cropped, but vignetting and optical aberration-free image.
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In this video, I show you which camera adapter fits the best with my Radical 2000x metallurgical microscope. When I bought this microscope, I picked a very simple T2-NEX adapter which turned out to be wrong, because the image suffers from heavy vignetting. Then, I purchased a rather expensive adapter, called “NDPL-1(2X)” with a built-in aperture and lenses, but it did not work either. In fact, it produces a distorted image with a heavy chromatic aberration, and guess what, vignetting. Then, the third option was just a simple extension tube (“Eyepiece projection adapter”). This adapter significantly increased the distance between the microscope lens and the sensor of the camera which resulted in a cropped, but vignetting and optical aberration-free image.
Join my channel membership: youtube.com/channel/UCKp1MzuAceJnDqAvsZl_46g/join
Affiliate links:
T2-NEX adapter: https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_omvJFbB
T2-NEX extension tube: https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DDEJ66D
Calibration slide: https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_oCBfyU5
Check my blog article:
https://curiousscientist.tech/blog/camera-adapters-for-my-metallurgical-microscope
Get the relevant tools and gadgets I use in my videos:
https://curiousscientist.tech/tools
