Micro Micro Scope
Browsing through this month’ s issue of National Geographic I came upon a gorgeous and inspiring color photograph across two pages. The wing scales of the sunset moth under microsscope showed details not seen by the naked eye. This image by Charles Krebbs got me Googling. and I found Krebbs site detailing his micro scope photography techniques.
What a stunning idea to use a camera jammed onto the  microscope and capture the microcosm world of color and shape in miniature. Who knows what else is possible out there?
The Krebbs website detailing the micro micro scope technique comes in two versions, a 2005 stab and an updated 2007 version. At the KrebsMicro site, Krebbs seems to have appropriated the word “micro” as his photo brand, and I can’t say that I blame him. This is a compelling new photography medium I am tantalized to find out about.
Krebs writes he got started through an Ebay auction, and this is exactly what was running through my mind. How expensive can a decent microscope be anyway? I quote in part:
The arrival of digital photography, and the resources of the Internet are tremendous assets toward  learning microscopy and the techniques of photomicrography. It is an ongoing process for me. The use of some innovative software products for extended depth-of-field techniques has allowed the creation of certain types of images that could only be dreamed of  five or six years ago. Â
 On this page you will find links to my photomicrography galleries. While not entirely in chronological order, I tend to add  a new one when I have gathered a sufficient number of new images. As such, the subject matter is random… whatever came across my microscope stage the previous months. The galleries are rather simple, and only in the most recent ones have I started to include subject and technical information.
You will also find links to my articles and pages that contain information about the particular equipment, techniques, and setup that I use. Some also go into detail on subjects I found  important and useful toward developing the understanding and skills needed for successful photomicrography.
There is a huge amount of information available online. It is possible to spend days looking over just the sites on microscopy established by Nikon and Olympus. And there are innumerable other sites with this type of  valuable information. So the articles presented here do not attempt to duplicate these resources, but generally cover specific topics that are useful when using DSLR (or SLR) cameras for photomicrography.
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