Best dissecting microscopes for botanical subjects?

David Ehrlich idavide@sbcglobal.net
Sat, 08 Feb 2014 19:56:00 PST
I had heard about, though I don't know where to find more information on it, a camera + computer setup where the camera took a series of pictures with gradually changing focus settings, and the pictures were then combined by the computer choosing only the in-focus portions to create the composite.  This would be extremely useful  in creating substantial depth of field for close-ups, and macro photography generally.  If anyone knows anything about this equipment, I'd be very interested.


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>It may be worth mentioning if anyone here is a software guru or twelve year
>old, there are some really cool things you can do with photomicrographs
>nowadays to remove all blurring from limited depth of field.  It involves
>taking several images where the only thing you change is the focal distance
>and then create a composite saving only the in-focus parts of each image.
>This is surprisingly simple for digital images since a sharp sub-image or
>neighborhood is defined by high local variation in brightness as measured by
>standard deviation or range.
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