1. Getting to Know the imaging Equipment

2. Lecture Outline 5D Camera Overview Setting up the 5D and lens
Lens and uses
Setting up the 5D and lens
How to
Lens – Zoom
7D Camera and K2 Microscope Overview
Uses
Setting up the 7D and K2

3. Macro: The Canon 5D Digital Camera
Best Uses: Specimens between ~1mm to ~50cm in length

4. Macro: The Canon 5D Digital Camera 50mm Lens
Uses:
Large Specimens
Drawers
Herbarium Sheets
A ~10cm moth zoomed in 1to6.

5. Macro: The Canon 5D Digital Camera 100mm Lens
Uses: Most insect specimens
Pinned Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Odonata, Orthoptera, small-medium sized Lepidoptera, etc
Best for any specimen sized between 1-10cm

6. Macro: The Canon 5D Digital Camera 65mm Lens
Uses: specimens between 5mm and >1mm.
Optional 1.4x teleconverter (increases zoom capability)

7. How to Set Up 5D Camera and Lenses

8. Step 1: Make sure extension is on lift*
When not attached, top levers will be to the left.
Press back of extension to carriage .
When fully locked on, carriage lever will click to the right.
*Note: This is only the case for the 5D camera. When using 7D/K2, extension must be off lift.

9. Step 2: Attach 5D camera to extension
Press camera base to front of extension.
Extension lever will click right when locked
Once securely attached, remove bottom cap.
Shouldn’t you remove the cap after you plug everything in?

10. Step 3: Plug in cables and Battery
2 Cables plug-in on right side of camera.
Battery in back of camera on left.
Push battery in until it clicks, then close battery door.
To open battery door, pull lever on door to right.

11. Step 4: Attach lens to camera
Pick up desired lens (carefully!)
Remove top cap (one above red dot)
Line lens up with camera by red dots.

12. Step 4, continued: Attach lens to camera
Press lens up into camera and turn right until red dot is ~90o right and clicks into place.
Once firmly in place, remove bottom lens cap.
100mm and 50mm: Pinch cap sides
65mm: just pull off cap

13. Removing Lens Just reverse process (mostly)
To release lens from camera, press side tab on right and turn lens left. The red dots will line up once again, and the lens will be released. Please be careful.
Drop the lens = you die.

14. 100mm Lens Zoom
Zoom: Gold Ratios on lens 1:1-Highest Zoom -1:1 is for things close to the lens 1:5-Lowest Zoom -1:x is for things far away from the lens. Can be used for especially large specimens that are too big for the field of view of 1:1 magnification.

15. 65mm Lens Zoom
1x (lowest zoom) to
5x (highest zoom)

16. Attaching 65mm 1.4x Teleconverter
Remove top 1.4x lens cap, then top 65mm lens cap, then bottom 1.4x cap.
Line up bottom of 1.4x with top of 65mm by red dots

17. Attaching 65mm 1.4x Teleconverter
Twist to the right until you hear a click. 1.4x should be firmly attached to 65mm.
Attach top of 1.4x teleconverter to camera as you would attach any other lens.

18. Micro: Canon 7D with Infinity K2 Long Distance Microscope
Best Uses: Microscopic specimens (slides) or microscopic parts of specimens (ie stomata)

19. Micro: Canon 7D with Infinity K2 Long Distance Microscope
Stomata on a pine needle taken with the K2 using SolMate.
2mm long flea taken with the K2 using SolMate.

20. Setting up the 7D-K2 ‘scope
First make sure extension is off lift. It will not work with the extension still attached!
Before attaching 7D-K2 to lift, insert battery (hold camera firmly with right hand and put in battery with left hand)

21. Setting up the 7D-K2 ‘scope
Once battery is in camera, attach camera to lift same as with the 5D (lever will click to right when in place)
Attach cables

22. Setting up the 7D-K2 ‘scope
Tilt objective to empty top covering into hand.
“After unscrewing, tilt the objective so that the covering falls gently into your hand.”?
Um, what?

23. Setting up the 7D-K2 ‘scope
Remove orange cap by pulling off (it’s very high-tech)
Select desired objective (CF2, CF3, CF4, 5x or 10x)
Loosen dial on objective

24. Setting up the 7D-K2 ‘scope
Fix top of objective to base of K2
Tighten side dial to secure objective on K2
Remove bottom cap (same as orange from before)

25. How to choose an objective size for K2