I have yet to use a microscope adapter in nearly 50 years of 35mm photography – but that doesn’t mean that I haven’t collected them and enjoyed the thought of someday using one. I’ve had a few Canon adapters over the years too.
The first step would be actively looking for a microscope to purchase on one of the many online auction sites. Something I will do.
Here’s a nice adapter from Yashica with the Pentamatic bayonet mount. It’s one of the first accessories to appear in the early Pentamatic instruction booklets from 1960. List price was ¥2,500 which was fairly expensive back in the day.
The adapter mounts directly to the body of the camera – no lens needed.
A scan from an early Pentamatic sales brochure.
These instructions are from a later booklet featuring the adapter for the M42 screw mount.
I believe that the microscope depicted here is a Yashima microscope but it’s not made by Yashica. Yashima was the first name that Yashica went by in the early 1950s.
Not made by Yashica but still a super cool vintage microscope.
Typically you’d use a right angle finder such as this one to make it a bit easier to use the adapter on a microscope.
What’s always amazed me is just how many different camera manufacturers made microscope adapters – Canon, Olympus, Nikon just to name a few and how many are still available for purchase online from various auction sites that are unused, still new in their boxes.
Thanks for stopping by! – Chris
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