Since I haven't yet received any replies from anyone allowing me to access the labs to take some photos down the microscope, I have taken it upon myself to find other ways to do so. I came across a website, howto.wired.com/wiki/Take_Microphotographs, listing stages to take photos through a microscope using cheap and home made techniques and equipment. Since I know what equipment the uni can provide, my process and outcomes may be more professional than this depending on whether or not I gain any form of response from the tutors that I've contacted.
The equipment I will need are a real but cheap microscope, some live specimens and a digital camera, all of which will be easy to find.
Stage 1 is to prepare a slide. Stage 2 is to get the sample in focus by starting on the lowest magnification lens and then turn the coarse focal dial, which moves the viewing stage up and down, so tat is it all the way up. I have to make sure that the lens doesn't bang into the viewing stage whilst I'm making it go up and down so I would adjust this whilst looking from the side. The I'd have to look through the lens and use the coarse and fine dials to get it into focus. The next stage is to find the microscopes eye point and position the camera. The cameras flash should be turned off and auto focus to be set to 'infinity' which is also known as 'afocal'. The view screen on the bac should be turned on then after playing around with positioning and zoom I'd find the spot I'm happy with to capture microscope images.
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