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Old and New - angst

I know microscope views aren't allowed but this is a working machine! It's a vintage Olympus PME inverted metallograph, designed to examine metal surfaces. A Motorola 6845 chip is lying face-down at the top and some lettering on the chip is magnified 800x and visible at the bottom on frosted glass over the dry photo plate cavity.

Canon EOS D30 ,EF28-135

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jimhwy07-Oct-2005 10:39
That's great. I love seeing all of this stuff. That is an amazing instrument. So I take it that you can insert a large format film pack in there and make photos that way. It also looks like a 35mm film body down there in the lower left of the shot. That light source is neat too. Cooling fins to keep it from getting too hot, I guess. Awesome.