Can you adapt M8 to a microscope?

[intex]

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I am wondering if there is a macro lens that can be fitted to the M8 to enable it to take microscopic pictures? I know that an SLR is probably better suited (We now use a Nikon D series), but would like to adapt the M8 if possible. Since the focus is almost always preset at one level, focusing is not a problem once set.

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[joern]

I use the Visoflex III with bellows II and a Apo-Rodagon-N 105 enlarger lens. Very nice combo. I am still looking for an adapter to connect my Zeiss Luminar 25 lens. That will be real macro.

 

jørn

[spydrxx]

There's an attachment called the "Micro-Ibso" manufactured by Leitz for use on M cameras which was made in the 1950-60s. Every month or so I see them on EBay going for around $150-180 USD. Essentially it mounts into the microscope's ocular tube, has a beam splitter which allows you to focus, then snap the picture at the focal plane of the camera. If I recall right it also has a built-in shutter, but I can't remember. The alternative method, which I used in the 1960s was to build, with a series of lenshoods a light trap (ieone lenshood attached to the microscope's ocular facing upward, and a smaller lenshood attached to a 50mm lens (on the camera) which rested inside the lenshood attached to the ocular. The trick was to focus the camera at infinity....focus the microscope on the subject....then place the camera onto the ocular via the contraption mentioned above. A cable release to trip the shutter and it worked every time.